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

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

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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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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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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,

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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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