Proverbs 3:29
Lexham English Bible
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
who dwells in confidence beside you.
Proverbs 3:29
Common English Bible
29 Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
who trusts and lives near you.
Proverbs 6:1
Lexham English Bible
Against Pledges
6 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”
Proverbs 6:1
Common English Bible
Wise advice
6 My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:3
Lexham English Bible
3 do this, then, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand:[a]
Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”
Proverbs 6:3
Common English Bible
3 Do this, my son, to get out of it,
for you have come under the control of your neighbor.
So go, humble yourself,[a] and pester your neighbor.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain
Proverbs 16:29
Lexham English Bible
29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.
Proverbs 16:29
Common English Bible
29 Violent people entice their neighbors
and walk them down a path that isn’t good.
Proverbs 21:10
Lexham English Bible
10 The soul[a] of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”
Proverbs 21:10
Common English Bible
10 Wicked people desire evil;
their neighbors receive no mercy from them.
Proverbs 25:17
Lexham English Bible
17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Proverbs 25:17
Common English Bible
17 Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house.
Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.
Proverbs 27:10
Lexham English Bible
10 As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
Proverbs 27:10
Common English Bible
10 Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family;
don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes.
Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Proverbs 27:14
Lexham English Bible
14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
early in the morning,
a curse will be reckoned to him.
Proverbs 27:14
Common English Bible
14 Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning
will be viewed as a curse.
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