29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.

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29 Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,(A)
for he trusts you and lives near you.

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Dangerous Promises

My son, (A)if you become [a]surety for your friend,
If you have [b]shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 guaranty or collateral
  2. Proverbs 6:1 Lit. struck

Financial Entanglements

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[a]
or entered into an agreement with[b] a stranger,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 Or friend
  2. 6:1 Lit or slapped hands for

So do this, my son, and deliver yourself;
For you have come into the hand of your friend:
Go and humble yourself;
Plead with your friend.

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Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

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29 A violent man entices his neighbor,
And leads him in a way that is not good.

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29 A violent person lures his neighbor,(A)
leading him on a path that is not good.(B)

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10 (A)The soul of the wicked desires evil;
His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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10 A wicked person desires evil;
he has no consideration[a] for his neighbor.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:10 Or favor

17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house,
Lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;
otherwise, he’ll get sick of you and hate you.

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10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
(A)Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

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10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,(A)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.(B)

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14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.

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14 If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.

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