¹⁹ The path of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,
    but the way of those who do right is a clear road.

²⁴ Lazy people bury their hand in the bowl;
    they won’t even put it to their mouth.

⁴ The lazy don’t plow during winter;
    at harvest they look but find nothing.

²⁵ The desires of the lazy will kill them,
    because their hands refuse to do anything.
²⁶ The lazy desire things constantly,
    but the righteous give without holding back.

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the street!
    I’ll be killed in the town square!”

³⁰ I happened upon the field of a lazy person,
    by the vineyard of one with no sense.
³¹ Thorns grew all over it;
    weeds covered the ground,
    and the stone wall was falling down.
³² I observed this and took it to heart;
    I saw it and learned a lesson.
³³ “A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little lying down with folded arms”—
³⁴     and poverty will come on you like a prowler,
    deprivation like a man with a shield.

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the path!
    A lion in the plazas!”
¹⁴ As a door turns on its hinge,
    so do lazy people in their beds.
¹⁵ Lazy people bury their hand into the bowl,
    too tired to return it to their mouth.
¹⁶ Lazy people think they are wiser
    than seven people who answer sensibly.