²⁶ A lazy person brings trouble to the one he works for.
    He bothers others like vinegar on the teeth or smoke in the eyes.

¹⁹ A lazy person’s life is as difficult as walking through a patch of thorns.
    But an honest person’s life is as easy as walking down a smooth highway.

²⁴ The lazy person may put his hand in the dish,
    but he won’t lift the food to his mouth!

⁴ A lazy farmer doesn’t plow when he should.
    So at harvest time he has no crop.

²⁵ The lazy person’s desire for sleep will kill him
    because he refuses to work.
²⁶ All day long the lazy person wishes for more.
    But the good person gives without holding back.

¹³ The lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside!
    I might get killed out in the street!”

³⁰ I passed by a lazy person’s field.
    I went by the vineyard of a man who had no sense.
³¹ Thorns had grown up everywhere.
    The ground was covered with weeds.
    And the stone walls had fallen down.
³² I thought about what I had seen.
    I learned this lesson from what I saw.
³³ You sleep a little; you take a nap.
    You fold your hands and rest.
³⁴ Soon you will be poor, as if you had been robbed.
    You will have as little as if you had been held up.

¹³ The lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the road.
    There’s a lion in the streets!”

¹⁴ The lazy person is like a door that turns back and forth on its hinges.
    He stays in bed and turns over and over.

¹⁵ The lazy person may put his hand in the dish.
    But he’s too tired to lift the food to his mouth.

¹⁶ The lazy person thinks he is wiser
    than seven people who give sensible answers.