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

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter: