27 (A)Prepare your outside work,
Make it fit for yourself in the field;
And afterward build your house.

28 (B)Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
[a]For would you deceive with your lips?
29 (C)Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me;
I will render to the man according to his work.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:28 LXX, Vg. Do not deceive

27 Put your outdoor work in order
    and get your fields ready;
    after that, build your house.

28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause(A)
    would you use your lips to mislead?
29 Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me;
    I’ll pay them back for what they did.”(B)

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