Study Desk

Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,

then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

The wicked man craves evil; his neighbor gets no mercy from him.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house- too much of you, and he will hate you.

Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.