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

⁴ Lazy hands make for poverty,
    but diligent hands bring wealth.

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

¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep,
    and the shiftless go hungry.

²⁴ Diligent hands will rule,
    but laziness ends in forced labour.

⁴ Sluggards do not plough in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.