The Scriptures 1998

Proverbs 24:27-32 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

27. Prepare your outside work, And make it fit for yourself in the field; Then you shall build your house.

28. Do not witness against your neighbour without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.

29. Do not say, “Let me do to him as he did to me; I repay each according to his work.”

30. I passed by the field of the lazy, And by the vineyard of the man lacking heart;

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

32. When I saw it, I set my heart on it; I looked and received discipline: