²³These also are sayings of the wise: ²⁴Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— ²⁵but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, ²⁶An honest answer given ²⁷Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; ²⁸Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, ²⁹Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; ³⁰I went past the field of a slacker ³¹Thorns had grown up everywhere, ³²I observed and took it to heart; ³³A little sleep, a little slumber, ³⁴and poverty will come upon you like a robber,