^27 (A)Prepare your outside work,
Make it fit for yourself in the field;
And afterward build your house.

^28 (B)Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
^[a]For would you deceive with your lips?
^29 (C)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.”

³⁰ I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;