Proverbs 24:27
Revised Standard Version
27 Prepare your work outside,
get everything ready for you in the field;
and after that build your house.
Proverbs 24:30-34
Revised Standard Version
30 I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of a man without sense;
31 and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 25:2
Revised Standard Version
2 It is the glory of God to conceal things,
but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Proverbs 25:13
Revised Standard Version
13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
is a faithful messenger to those who send him,
he refreshes the spirit of his masters.
Proverbs 26:13-16
Revised Standard Version
13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a sluggard on his bed.
15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who can answer discreetly.
Proverbs 27:23
Revised Standard Version
23 Know well the condition of your flocks,
and give attention to your herds;
Proverbs 28:19
Revised Standard Version
19 He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
Proverbs 30:24-28
Revised Standard Version
24 Four things on earth are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
25 the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 the badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the rocks;
27 the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
28 the lizard you can take in your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.
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