²⁶ As vinegar is to the mouth^[a] and smoke to the eyes,
    so is the lazy person to those who send him.

¹⁹ The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge,
    but the path taken by the upright is an open highway.

²⁴ The lazy person buries his hand in his dish
    and doesn’t bother to bring it back to his mouth.

⁴ A lazy person doesn’t plow in the proper^[a] season;
    he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.

²⁵ What the lazy person craves will kill him,
    because his hands refuse to work.
²⁶ All day long he continues to crave,
    while the righteous person gives without holding back.

¹³ The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside!
    I will be killed in the street!”

³⁰ I went by the field belonging to a lazy man,
    by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person.
³¹ There it was, overgrown with thistles,
    the ground covered with thorns,
        its stone wall collapsed.
³² As I observed, I thought about it;
    I watched, and learned a lesson:
³³ “A little sleep! A little slumber!
    A little folding of my hands to rest!”
³⁴ Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    your need like an armed bandit.