Proverbs 24:28-29

If you speak false evidence against your neighbour, your attitudes are wrong. You should not be opposing your neighbour without a proper reason. If your neighbour is guilty, then God will punish your neighbour. God is the judge.

So you should not punish your neighbour if he has upset you. Instead, you should forgive your neighbour. See Matthew 18:21-22 and Mark 11:25.

v30 I passed the lazy man’s field.

I passed the garden that belongs to that unwise man.

v31 Weeds were everywhere. The plants were wild.

Even the garden wall had fallen down.

v32 I thought about the things that I saw.

I learned a lesson from that place.

v33 If you are lazy, you may say, ‘Relax and sleep!

Fold your arms and rest!’

v34 But such attitudes will make you poor, as quickly as a thief attacks.

Your losses will overcome you.