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.

² It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
    and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.

¹³ Like cold snow during harvest time
    is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
        he refreshes his masters.