Holman Christian Standard Bible

Proverbs 24:28-34 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

28. Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

29. Don’t say, “I’ll do to him what he did to me;I’ll repay the man for what he has done.”

30. I went by the field of a slackerand by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.

31. Thistles had come up everywhere,weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.

32. I saw, and took it to heart;I looked, and received instruction:

33. a little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the arms to rest,

34. and your poverty will come like a robber,your need, like a bandit.