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

⁴ A lazy person does not plow in the fall.^[a]
He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.

²⁵ The desire of a lazy person will kill him
because his hands refuse to work.
²⁶ All day long he feels greedy,
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!”

³⁰ I passed by a lazy person’s field,
the vineyard belonging to a person without sense.
³¹ I saw that it was all overgrown with thistles.
The ground was covered with weeds,
and its stone fence was torn down.
³² When I observed ⌞this⌟, I took it to heart.
I saw it and learned my lesson.
³³ “Just a little sleep,
just a little slumber,
just a little nap.”
³⁴ Then your poverty will come like a drifter,
and your need will come like a bandit.

¹³ A lazy person says,
“There’s a ferocious lion out on the road!
There’s a lion loose in the streets!”
¹⁴ ⌞As⌟ a door turns on its hinges,
so the lazy person turns on his bed.
¹⁵ A lazy person puts his fork in his food.
He wears himself out as he brings it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ A lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give a sensible answer.