29 (A)Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

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29 Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
    who trusts and lives near you.

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Parental Counsel

My son, if you have become a (A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Or have given a handshake for a stranger,

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Wise advice

My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
    or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,

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Then do this, my son, and save yourself:
Since you have come into the [a]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and be urgent with your neighbor to free yourself.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Lit palm

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain

29 A person of violence (A)entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.

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29 Violent people entice their neighbors
    and walk them down a path that isn’t good.

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10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
His (A)neighbor is shown no compassion in his eyes.

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10 Wicked people desire evil;
    their neighbors receive no mercy from them.

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17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become [a]weary of you and hate you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with

17 Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house.
    Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.

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10 Do not abandon your (A)friend or (B)your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.

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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.

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14 (A)One who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be considered a curse to him.

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14 Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning
    will be viewed as a curse.

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