Proverbs 3:29

Good News Translation

Don't plan anything that will hurt your neighbors; they live beside you, trusting you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,for he trusts you and lives near you.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't devise evil against your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you.

King James Version
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

English Standard Version
Do not plan evil against your neighbor, who dwells trustingly beside you.

New Century Version
Don't make plans to hurt your neighbor who lives nearby and trusts you.

New English Translation
Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

Amplified Bible
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, Who lives securely beside you.

New American Standard Bible
Do not devise harm against your neighbor, While he lives securely beside you.

World English Bible
Don't devise evil against your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Intend none hurt against thy neighbour, seeing he doeth dwell without feare by thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not devise harm against your neighbor,While he lives securely beside you.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't plan harm against your neighbor who lives beside you trustingly.

Darby Translation
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't make plans to harm your neighbor, who lives near you and trusts you.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells in peace beside you.

Lexham English Bible
Do not plot harm against your neighbor who dwells in confidence beside you.

Literal Translation
Do not plan evil against your neighbor, since he lives securely by you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
where as thou hast now to geue him. Intende no hurte vnto thy neghboure, seynge he hopeth to dwell in rest by the.

American Standard Version
Devise not evil against thy neighbor, Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Bible in Basic English
Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

King James Version (1611)
Deuise not euil against thy neighbour, seeing hee dwelleth securely by thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Intende no hurt against thy neyghbour, seing he hopeth to dwell in rest by thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Devise not evil against thy friend, living near thee and trusting in thee.

English Revised Version
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ymagyne thou not yuel to thi freend, whanne he hath trist in thee.

Update Bible Version
Don't devise evil against your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

New King James Version
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, For he dwells by you for safety's sake.

New Living Translation
Don't plot harm against your neighbor, for those who live nearby trust you.

New Life Bible
Do not plan for your neighbor to be hurt, while he trusts you enough to live beside you.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Devise not against thy neighbour an injury, seeing that, he, dwelleth securely by thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in thee.

Revised Standard Version
Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.

Young's Literal Translation
Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not devise harm against your neighbor, While he lives securely beside you.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it. ²⁸ Never tell your neighbors to wait until tomorrow if you can help them now. ²⁹ Don't plan anything that will hurt your neighbors; they live beside you, trusting you. ³⁰ Don't argue with others for no reason when they have never done you any harm. ³¹ Don't be jealous of violent people or decide to act as they do, ³² because the Lord hates people who do evil, but he takes righteous people into his confidence. ³³ The Lord puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous. ³⁴ He has no use for conceited people, but shows favor to those who are humble. ³⁵ Wise people will gain an honorable reputation, but stupid people will only add to their own disgrace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Devise not evil: or, Practise no evil, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 6:18, Proverbs 16:29, Proverbs 16:30, Psalms 35:20, Psalms 55:20, Psalms 59:3, Jeremiah 18:18-20, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2

Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:10 - soul Ezekiel 38:11 - safely Zechariah 7:10 - imagine Zechariah 8:17 - let

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Devise not evil against thy neighbour,.... Or, "plough not evil" i; turn not up thy heart to find evil against thy neighbour, as the earth is turned up by the plough; see Hosea 10:13. Do not contrive and form schemes in thy mind and thoughts to do him any injury, in his name and character, in his person, property, or family: a good man should devise all the good he can to his fellow creatures, but not evil to any; especially to his neighbour, and as described in the next clause;

seeing he dwelleth securely by thee; having a good opinion of thee, and not suspecting any ill design against him, thinks himself, goods, and family, in safety; and is under no concern to provide for his security, placing his confidence in thee, and perhaps to such a degree as to entrust with his secrets. Now to project evil against such a man is exceeding base; it is doubly sinful; this is an aggravation of the iniquity.

i תתרש "ne ares", Amama.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A marked change in style. The continuous exhortation is replaced by a series of maxims.

From them to whom it is due - literally, as in the margin. The precept expresses the great Scriptural thought that the so-called possession of wealth is but a stewardship; that the true owners of what we call our own are those to whom, with it, we may do good. Not to relieve them is a breach of trust.

Proverbs 3:28

Procrastination is especially fatal to the giving impulse. The Septuagint adds the caution: “for thou knowest not what the morrow will bring forth.”

Proverbs 3:29

Securely - i. e., “With full trust,” without care or suspicion. Compare Judges 18:7, Judges 18:27.

Proverbs 3:31

A protest against the tendency to worship success, to think the lot of the “man of violence” enviable, and therefore to be chosen.

Proverbs 3:32

The true nature of such success. That which people admire is an abomination to Yahweh. His “secret,” i. e., His close, intimate communion as of “friend with friend,” is with the righteous.

Proverbs 3:33

The thought, like that which appears in Zechariah 5:3-4, and pervades the tragedies of Greek drama, is of a curse, an Ate, dwelling in a house from generation to generation, the source of ever-recurring woes. There is, possibly, a contrast between the “house” or “palace” of the rich oppressor and the lowly shepherd’s hut, the “sheep-cote” 2 Samuel 7:8 ennobled only by its upright inhabitants.

Proverbs 3:34

Surely - Better, If he scorneth the scorners, i. e., Divine scorn of evil is the complement, and, as it were, the condition, of divine bounty to the lowly (compare the marginal reference and the Proverbs 1:26 note).

Proverbs 3:35

The margin conveys the thought that “fools” glory in that which is indeed their shame. Others take the clause as meaning “every fool takes up shame,” i. e., gains nothing but that.