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Go to the ant, you sluggard.
    Consider her ways, and be wise;
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
    provides her bread in the summer,
    and gathers her food in the harvest.
How long will you sleep, sluggard?
    When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 so your poverty will come as a robber,
    and your scarcity as an armed man.

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He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand,
    but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
    but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

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26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.

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11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread,
    but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

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24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule,
    but laziness ends in slave labor.

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27 The slothful man doesn’t roast his game,
    but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

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The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing,
    but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away,
    but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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23 In all hard work there is profit,
    but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

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19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch,
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

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One who is slack in his work
    is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.
    The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
    therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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13 Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
    Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
    and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

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25 The desire of the sluggard kills him,
    for his hands refuse to labor.

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30 I went by the field of the sluggard,
    by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
    Its surface was covered with nettles,
    and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw, and considered well.
    I saw, and received instruction:
33 a little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to sleep,
34 so your poverty will come as a robber
    and your want as an armed man.

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13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
    A fierce lion roams the streets!”
14 As the door turns on its hinges,
    so does the sluggard on his bed.
15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.
    He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
    than seven men who answer with discretion.

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19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food;
    but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

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