Proverbs
Chapters 24:28-34
New International Version Anglicized
28Do not testify against your neighbour without cause –would you use your lips to mislead?
29Do not say, ‘I’ll do to them as they have done to me;I’ll pay them back for what they did.’
30I went past the field of a sluggard,past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31thorns had come up everywhere,the ground was covered with weeds,and the stone wall was in ruins.
32I applied my heart to what I observedand learned a lesson from what I saw:
33a little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the hands to rest –
34and poverty will come on you like a thiefand scarcity like an armed man.