⁴ Lazy people are soon poor;
    hard workers get rich.

⁵ Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity,
    but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

⁴ Those too lazy to plow in the right season
    will have no food at the harvest.

¹⁵ Lazy people sleep soundly,
    but idleness leaves them hungry.

⁴ Lazy people want much but get little,
    but those who work hard will prosper.

⁶ Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.
    Learn from their ways and become wise!
⁷ Though they have no prince
    or governor or ruler to make them work,
⁸ they labor hard all summer,
    gathering food for the winter.
⁹ But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?
    When will you wake up?
¹⁰ A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest—
¹¹ then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
    scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

¹³ If you love sleep, you will end in poverty.
    Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!

²⁴ Lazy people take food in their hand
    but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

²⁴ Work hard and become a leader;
    be lazy and become a slave.