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24 Do not envy evil people;
do not want to associate with them,
2 because they plan to act violently,
and they talk about troubling people.
3 People build houses by acting wisely,
they make houses stable by acting understandably.
4 By acting knowledgeably, people fill the rooms of those houses
with all kinds of valuable and delightful riches.
5 Wise people are strong,
and knowledgeable people make themselves more powerful,
6 because letting people advise you will make you fight your war successfully,
and letting many people counsel you will rescue you from losing the war.
7 Foolish people cannot understand what is wise;
they have nothing to say in court.
8 Some people are always planning to act evilly;
other people refer to them as schemers.
9 Foolish plans are sinful,
and people detest people who ridicule others.
10 If you fail during distressful times,
then you are weak.
11 Save people whom others are unjustly leading away to kill;
prevent them from staggering to the place where people will unjustly slaughter them!
12 If you falsely claim that you did not know that those people were dying unjustly, then think about this:
Yahweh discerns what people think and surely understands!
He keeps you alive and surely knows!
He will surely make people receive what they deserve for what they have done!
13 My child, eat honey because it tastes good,
and honey dripping from the comb tastes sweet.
14 Be aware that what is wise is like honey for you.
If you become wise, then you will have a good future,
and what you hope will happen will indeed occur!
15 Do not be like wicked people and hide in wait in order to attack the places where righteous people dwell.
Do not devastate the places where righteous people rest!
16 Do not do so because righteous people can recover many times when disastrous things happen to them,
but disastrous things will destroy wicked people.
17 Do not be happy when something disastrous happens to your adversaries.
Indeed, do not rejoice when that happens!
18 If you do, then Yahweh will notice and disapprove,
so that he stops being angry with your enemies.
19 Do not worry about people who do what is evil.
Do not be jealous of wicked people.
20 Do not do so because evil people will not have good futures,
but wicked people will merely die like an oil lamp that stops burning oil.
21 My child, reverently fear Yahweh and kings.
Avoid people who rebel against either Yahweh or the king,
22 because disastrous things will happen quickly to those people,
and no one knows how terribly both Yahweh and kings can destroy others! 23 Here are more things that wise people have said:
It is very evil to favor someone when you judge.
24 Many people will curse, and people groups will hate,
anyone who declares that any guilty person is innocent.
25 However, people who condemn guilty people will prosper,
and Yahweh will bless them well.
26 People who answer honestly show that they are true friends.
27 Do the work you must do outside and prepare your fields
before you build your house.
28 Do not testify against someone you know if you do not have a good reason to do so.
Do not speak deceitfully!
29 Do not say, “I will do to him that same bad thing he did to me;
I will pay him back for what he did to me!”
30 I walked by the land of a lazy person,
and past the vineyard of someone who does not think wisely.
31 And I saw that thistles and weeds were everywhere in that field and vineyard. Even the stone wall surrounding them had fallen down.
32 When I saw that, I considered carefully what I was seeing. When I observed that, I learned this:
33 You say to yourself, “Let me sleep just a little more!
Let me lay my hands across my chest in order to rest comfortably for a little while longer!”
34 Being so lazy will result in you suddenly becoming poor and needy,
as if a thief has attacked you.
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