Go to the ant, you sluggard;(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!

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

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

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12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate(A) those who through faith and patience(B) inherit what has been promised.(C)

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One who is slack in his work
    is brother to one who destroys.(A)

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How long will you lie there, you sluggard?(A)
    When will you get up from your sleep?

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26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?

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25 Ants are creatures of little strength,
    yet they store up their food in the summer;(A)

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26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke(A) to the eyes,
    so are sluggards to those who send them.(B)

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11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,(A) serving the Lord.

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13 A sluggard says,(A) “There’s a lion in the road,
    a fierce lion roaming the streets!”(B)
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
    so a sluggard turns on his bed.(C)
15 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.(D)
16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
    than seven people who answer discreetly.

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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)

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25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,(A)
    because his hands refuse to work.

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“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,(A)
    or the birds in the sky,(B) and they will tell you;(C)
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
    or let the fish in the sea inform you.

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15 Laziness brings on deep sleep,
    and the shiftless go hungry.(A)

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

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24 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he will not even bring it back to his mouth!(A)

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19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,(A)
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

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26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?(B)

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17 How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!

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The ox knows(A) its master,
    the donkey its owner’s manger,(B)
but Israel does not know,(C)
    my people do not understand.(D)

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