⁶ Look to the ant, thou sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,

⁷ which, having no guide, overseer or ruler,

⁸ provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep”

¹¹ so shall thy poverty come as a marauder, and thy want as an armed man.

⁴ He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son, but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

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

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall exercise rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.

²⁷ The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox.

²³ In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

¹⁹ The way of a slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made a plain.