23. These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.
24. He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
25. but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
26. An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
27. Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
28. Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
29. Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
30. I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31. Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
32. Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
33. a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
34. so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.