English Standard Version

Proverbs 24:27-32 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. Prepare your work outside;get everything ready for yourself in the field,and after that build your house.

28. Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,and do not deceive with your lips.

29. Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;I will pay the man back for what he has done.”

30. I passed by the field of a sluggard,by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,

31. and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;the ground was covered with nettles,and its stone wall was broken down.

32. Then I saw and considered it;I looked and received instruction.