Proverbs 3:29 {30}
Good News Translation
Don't plan anything that will hurt your neighbors; they live beside you, trusting you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not plan harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't try to be mean to neighbors who trust you.

New American Bible
Do not plot evil against your neighbors, when they live at peace with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.

devise not evil

Proverbs 6:14,18 To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy. . . .

Proverbs 16:29,30 An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good. . . .

Psalm 35:20 For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

Psalm 55:20 He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,

Psalm 59:3 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Jeremiah 18:18-20 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. . . .

Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
28Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in thee. 29Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.30Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways.…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:14
To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

Proverbs 14:22
They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

Zechariah 8:17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Proverbs 3:28
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