²⁷ First, you should work outside
    and prepare your fields.
After that, you can start having your family.

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.

² God is honored for what he keeps secret.
    Kings are honored for what they can discover.

¹³ A trustworthy messenger refreshes those who send him.
    He is like the coolness of snow in the summertime.

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.

²³ Be sure you know how your sheep are doing.
    Pay close attention to the condition of your cattle.

¹⁹ The person who works his land will have plenty of food.
    But the one who chases useless dreams instead will end up very poor.

²⁴ “There are four things on earth that are small.
    But they are very wise:
²⁵ Ants are not very strong.
    But they store up food in the summer.
²⁶ Rock badgers are not powerful animals.
    But they can live among the rocks.
²⁷ Locusts have no king.
    But they all go out in formation.
²⁸ And lizards can be caught in the hand.
    But they are found even in kings’ palaces.