⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷ It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹ and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

⁴ Lazy hands make for poverty,^(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.^(B)

⁵ He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.^(C)

¹⁴ From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things,^(A)
    and the work of their hands brings them reward.^(B)

⁴ A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,^(A)
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

²³ All hard work brings a profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.

²⁶ The appetite of laborers works for them;
    their hunger drives them on.

¹⁹ Those who work their land will have abundant food,
    but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.^(A)