27 Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; afterward, build your house.
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,