Proverbs 15:19-21

The Message

¹⁹ The path of lazy people is overgrown with briers;
    the diligent walk down a smooth road.

²⁰ Intelligent children make their parents proud;
    lazy students embarrass their parents.

²¹ The empty-headed treat life as a plaything;
    the perceptive grasp its meaning and make a go of it.