Focused Passage
Wisdom Builds the House: Justice, Courage, Diligence, Enemies, and the Future of the Righteous
The chapter moves from warnings against envying the wicked, to wisdom as constructive strength, to courageous rescue, to future hope, to restraint toward enemies, to public justice and honest speech, and finally to ordered labor and the severe warning of the sluggard's ruined field.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
31Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
32I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
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