²⁵ Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin,
    for their hands refuse to work.

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

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

¹⁶ Lazy people consider themselves smarter
    than seven wise counselors.

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

¹⁹ A lazy person’s way is blocked with briers,
    but the path of the upright is an open highway.

²⁷ Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch,
    but the diligent make use of everything they find.

³⁰ I walked by the field of a lazy person,
    the vineyard of one with no common sense.
³¹ I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
    It was covered with weeds,
    and its walls were broken down.
³² Then, as I looked and thought about it,
    I learned this lesson:
³³ A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest—
³⁴ then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
    scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

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