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Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.
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Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, For would you deceive with your lips?
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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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I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;
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And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.
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When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction:
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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest;
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So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.