⁹ How long will you lie there, you slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes,
so is a lazy person to those who send him.

¹⁹ The way of a lazy person is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of upright people is a highway.

²⁴ A lazy person buries his hand in the dish,
but he does not even bring the food up to his mouth.

⁴ A lazy person fails to plow when it is the season for planting.^[a]
He expects something in the harvest, but nothing will be there.

²⁵ A lazy person’s craving will kill him,
because his hands refuse to work.
²⁶ All day long he craves something more,
but a righteous person gives and does not hold back.

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be murdered in the streets!”