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Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”— when you already have it with you.
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Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.
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Warnings Against Folly
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge 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— and give your neighbor no rest!
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keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
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With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
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Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.
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The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
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It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.
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A violent person entices their neighbor and leads them down a path that is not good.
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One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.
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The wicked crave evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them.
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Do not testify against your neighbor without cause— would you use your lips to mislead?
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do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame?
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If you take your neighbor to court, do not betray another’s confidence,
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Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house— too much of you, and they will hate you.
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Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.
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is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
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Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
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If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
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Those who flatter their neighbors are spreading nets for their feet.
