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Proverbs 24:27-33 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

27. Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.

28. Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.

29. Do not say, “Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed.”

30. I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking sense;

31. and behold, it was overgrown—all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

32. Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction:

33. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest,

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