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Proverbs 24:28

World English Bible

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause.
Don’t deceive with your lips.

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Proverbs 24:28 in other translations

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Proverbs 24:28 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 24:28 in context

  1. 26An honest answer
    is like a kiss on the lips.
  2. 27Prepare your work outside,
    and get your fields ready.
    Afterwards, build your house.
  3. 28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause.
    Don’t deceive with your lips.
  4. 29Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
    I will repay the man according to his work.”
  5. 30I went by the field of the sluggard,
    by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: