Proverbs 24:13-33

¹³My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

¹⁴So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁵Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

¹⁶For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.

¹⁷Bee thou not glad when thine enemie falleth, and let not thine heart reioyce when hee stumbleth,

¹⁸Least the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.

¹⁹Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.

²⁰For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.

²¹My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.

²²For their destruction shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?

²³ALSO THESE THINGS PERTEINE TO THE WISE, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.

²⁴He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.

²⁵But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.

²⁶They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.

²⁷Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.

²⁸Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?

²⁹Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his worke.

³⁰I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.

³¹And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

³²Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.

³³Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.