Proverbs
Chapters 24:29-34
New International Version Anglicized
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.