Proverbs 24:29-31

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²⁹Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
I will pay the man back for what he has done.”

³⁰I passed by the field of a sluggard,
    by the vineyard of a man without sense;
³¹and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns;
    the ground was covered with nettles,
    and its stone wall was broken down.

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