24:23. These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
24:24. They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
24:25. They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
24:26. He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
24:27. Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
24:28. Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
24:29. Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
24:30. I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
24:31. And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
24:32. Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.