Proverbs 29:24
Good News Translation
A thief's partner is his own worst enemy. He will be punished if he tells the truth in court, and God will curse him if he doesn't.

New Revised Standard Version
To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life; one hears the victim’s curse, but discloses nothing.

Contemporary English Version
If you take part in a crime you are your worst enemy, because even under oath you can't tell the truth.

New American Bible
Partners of a thief hate themselves; they hear the imprecation but do not testify.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.

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Proverbs 1:11-19 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Psalm 50:18-22 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker. . . .

Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

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Proverbs 6:32 He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:

Proverbs 8:36 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Proverbs 15:32 He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.

Proverbs 20:2 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

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Leviticus 5:1 If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

Judges 17:2 Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
23Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit. 24He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.25He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.…
Cross References
Leviticus 5:1
If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

1 Samuel 20:2
And he said to him: (God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my father will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath then my father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be.

Proverbs 29:23
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