¹⁵ Laziness puts one to sleep,
    and an idle person will go hungry.

²⁴ The lazy person buries his hand in his dish
    and doesn’t bother to bring it back to his mouth.

⁴ A lazy person doesn’t plow in the proper^[a] season;
    he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.

¹³ Do not love sleep or you’ll become poor,
    keep your eyes open and you’ll have plenty of food.

¹⁷ Pleasure lovers become poor;
    loving wine and oil doesn’t bring riches.

²⁵ What the lazy person craves will kill him,
    because his hands refuse to work.
²⁶ All day long he continues to crave,
    while the righteous person gives without holding back.

²⁹ Do you see a man skilled in his work?
    He will work for kings, not unimportant people.

²⁷ First do your outside work,
    preparing your land for yourself.
        After that, build your house.

³⁰ I went by the field belonging to a lazy man,
    by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person.
³¹ There it was, overgrown with thistles,
    the ground covered with thorns,
        its stone wall collapsed.
³² As I observed, I thought about it;
    I watched, and learned a lesson:
³³ “A little sleep! A little slumber!
    A little folding of my hands to rest!”
³⁴ Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    your need like an armed bandit.