Proverbs 24:25-34

²⁵but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and ◄they will receive blessings/God will bless them►.

²⁶Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends IDM.

²⁷First, do the work that needs to be done outside your house, and prepare your fields, and then plant things, and after you finish doing that, build your house.

²⁸In the courtroom do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not try to deceive people by what you say MTY.

²⁹Do not say, “I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay him back for the bad things that he did to me.”

³⁰One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.

³¹I was surprised to see that the fields were full of all kinds of thorny bushes, and the stone wall around the garden had ◄collapsed/fallen down►.

³²When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:

³³If you spend a lot of time sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,

³⁴soon you will become poor; it will be as though PRS, SIM a bandit who had a weapon in his hand attacked you and stole all that you had.