² An insightful servant rules over a disgraceful son
    and will divide an inheritance
    with the brothers.

⁹ Those who are lazy in their work
    are brothers to thugs.

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.

⁵ The plans of the diligent end up in profit,
    but those who hurry end up with loss.

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.

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the street!
    I’ll be killed in the town square!”