⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷ It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹ and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

⁴ Lazy hands make for poverty,^(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.^(B)

⁵ He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.^(C)

⁴ A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,^(A)
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

²³ All hard work brings a profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.

⁴ Sluggards^(A) do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.^(B)

¹³ The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!^(A)
    I’ll be killed in the public square!”

³⁰ I went past the field of a sluggard,^(A)
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
³¹ thorns had come up everywhere,
    the ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone wall was in ruins.
³² I applied my heart to what I observed
    and learned a lesson from what I saw:
³³ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(B)—
³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.^(C)

¹⁸ The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,^(A)
    and whoever protects their master will be honored.^(B)