27. Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready. After that, build your house.
28. Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
29. Do not say, “I will do to him what he has done to me; I will pay him back for his deed!”
30. I passed by the field of the slacker, by the vineyard of one lacking judgment.
31. Surprisingly, it was all overgrown with thorns, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
32. Then I took to heart what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33. “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,”
34. then your poverty comes tramping in, and your need like an armed soldier.