¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep;
    a slacker goes hungry.

²⁴ Lazy people bury their hand in the bowl;
    they won’t even put it to their mouth.

⁴ The lazy don’t plow during winter;
    at harvest they look but find nothing.

¹³ Don’t love sleep or you will be poor;
    stay alert and you will have plenty to eat.

⁵ The plans of the diligent end up in profit,
    but those who hurry end up with loss.

²⁵ The desires of the lazy will kill them,
    because their hands refuse to do anything.

³⁰ I happened upon the field of a lazy person,
    by the vineyard of one with no sense.
³¹ Thorns grew all over it;
    weeds covered the ground,
    and the stone wall was falling down.
³² I observed this and took it to heart;
    I saw it and learned a lesson.
³³ “A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little lying down with folded arms”—
³⁴     and poverty will come on you like a prowler,
    deprivation like a man with a shield.

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the path!
    A lion in the plazas!”
¹⁴ As a door turns on its hinge,
    so do lazy people in their beds.
¹⁵ Lazy people bury their hand into the bowl,
    too tired to return it to their mouth.
¹⁶ Lazy people think they are wiser
    than seven people who answer sensibly.

¹⁹ Those who work the land will have plenty to eat,
    but those with worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.