⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard?
    When will you arise out of your sleep?
¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to sleep—
¹¹ so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker,
    and your need as an armed man.

⁴ He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand,
    but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
    but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.

¹¹ He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread,
    but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent will rule,
    but the slothful will be put to forced labor.

²⁷ The slothful man does not roast that which he took in hunting,
    but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing;
    but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean;
    but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

²³ In all labor there is profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns,
    but the way of the righteous is made plain.