Proverbs 24:27-32 New Century Version (NCV)

27. First, finish your outside workand prepare your fields.After that, you can build your house.

28. Don’t testify against your neighbor for no good reason.Don’t say things that are false.

29. Don’t say, “I’ll get even;I’ll do to him what he did to me.”

30. I passed by a lazy person’s fieldand by the vineyard of someone with no sense.

31. Thorns had grown up everywhere.The ground was covered with weeds,and the stone walls had fallen down.

32. I thought about what I had seen;I learned this lesson from what I saw.

Proverbs 24