⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁴He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁵He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

²⁶As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

⁹He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

²⁴The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

²⁷The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

⁴The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

²³In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

¹⁹The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

⁹He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

¹⁵Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

¹³Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

²⁵The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

²⁶He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

³⁰I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

³¹And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

³²Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

¹⁴As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

¹⁵The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

⁵The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

¹⁸By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

¹⁰His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

⁴⁹Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

⁶And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

⁷They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

²⁰And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:

²¹For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

²²And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

²¹(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

¹⁰For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.