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29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.

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29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
    who lives trustfully near you.(A)

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Against Pledges

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”

Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”

So do this, my son, to free yourself,
    since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a]
    and give your neighbor no rest!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,

29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
    and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.

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29 A violent person entices their neighbor
    and leads them down a path that is not good.(A)

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10 The soul[a] of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”

10 The wicked crave evil;
    their neighbors get no mercy from them.

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17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
    lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—
    too much of you, and they will hate you.

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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.

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10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
    and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
    better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
    early in the morning,
    a curse will be reckoned to him.

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14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse.

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