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.

¹⁷ Those who love pleasure end up poor;
    lovers of wine and oil won’t get rich.

²⁵ The desires of the lazy will kill them,
    because their hands refuse to do anything.
²⁶ The lazy desire things constantly,
    but the righteous give without holding back.

²⁹ Do you see people who work skillfully?
    They will work for kings
        but not work for lowly people.

²⁷ Get your outside work done;
    make preparations in the field;
    then you can build your house.

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.

¹⁴ As a door turns on its hinge,
    so do lazy people in their beds.