⁹ How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
    When will you rise from your sleep?^(A)

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so are the lazy to their employers.^(A)

¹⁹ The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns,
    but the path of the upright is a level highway.^(A)

²⁴ The lazy person buries a hand in the dish
    and will not even bring it back to the mouth.^(A)

⁴ The lazy person does not plow in season;
    harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.^(A)

²⁵ The craving of the lazy person is fatal,
    for lazy hands refuse to labor.^(A)
26 All day long the wicked covet,^[a]
    but the righteous give and do not hold back.^(B)

¹³ The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside!
    I shall be killed in the streets!”^(A)