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28 Never be a witness against your neighbor without good reason
    or deceive with your lips.
29 Never say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
    I will pay him back for what he has done.”

I Passed by the Field of a Lazy Idler . . .[a]

30 I passed by the field of a lazy idler,[b]
    by the vineyard of a man without sense.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:30 A splendid lesson about things that would also be a fine popular song.
  2. Proverbs 24:30 Idler: see note on Prov 6:6.