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

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

⁴ Sluggards^(A) do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.^(B)

¹³ Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;^(A)
    stay awake and you will have food to spare.

¹⁷ Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
    whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.^(A)

⁵ The plans of the diligent lead to profit^(A)
    as surely as haste leads to poverty.

⁶ A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.^[a](B)

²⁷ Put your outdoor work in order
    and get your fields ready;
    after that, build your house.

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)