Proverbs 24:27-32

²⁷Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.

²⁸Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

²⁹Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.

³⁰I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;

³¹and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

³²Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction: