New King James Version

Proverbs 24:28-32 New King James Version (NKJV)

28. Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,For would you deceive with your lips?

29. Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me;I will render to the man according to his work.”

30. I went by the field of the lazy man,And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;

31. And there it was, all overgrown with thorns;Its surface was covered with nettles;Its stone wall was broken down.

32. When I saw it, I considered it well;I looked on it and received instruction: