21. My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters.
22. For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
23. These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
24. They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
25. They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
26. He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
27. Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
28. Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
29. Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
30. I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
31. And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
32. Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
33. Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest: