How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?

Read full chapter

How long will you lie down, you [a]lazy one?
When will you arise from your sleep?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:9 Lit idle one

26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,(A)
so the slacker is to the one who sends him on an errand.

Read full chapter

26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
So is the [a](A)lazy one to those who send him.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:26 Lit idle one

19 A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.(A)

Read full chapter

19 The way of the [a]lazy one is like a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:19 Lit idle

24 The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth!(A)

Read full chapter

24 The [a](A)lazy one buries his hand (B)in the dish,
But will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:24 Lit idle person

The slacker does not plow during planting season;[a]
at harvest time he looks,[b] and there is nothing.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 20:4 Lit plow in winter
  2. 20:4 Lit inquires

The [a](A)lazy one does not plow after the autumn,
So he [b]begs during the harvest and has nothing.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:4 Lit idle
  2. Proverbs 20:4 Lit asks

25 A slacker’s craving will kill him
because his hands refuse to work.(A)
26 He is filled with craving[a] all day long,
but the righteous give and don’t hold back.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 21:26 Lit He craves a craving

25 The (A)desire of the [a]lazy one puts him to death,
For his hands refuse to work;
26 All day long he [b]is craving,
While the righteous (B)gives and does not hold back.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:25 Lit idle
  2. Proverbs 21:26 Lit desires desire

13 The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!” (A)

Read full chapter

13 The [a](A)lazy one says, “There is a lion outside;
I will be killed in the streets!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:13 Lit idle

30 I went by the field of a slacker
and by the vineyard of one lacking sense.
31 Thistles had come up everywhere,
weeds covered the ground,(A)
and the stone wall was ruined.
32 I saw, and took it to heart;
I looked, and received instruction:
33 a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to rest,
34 and your poverty will come like a robber,
and your need, like a bandit.(B)

Read full chapter

30 I passed by the field of [a]a lazy one,
And by the vineyard of a person (A)lacking [b]sense,
31 And behold, it was completely (B)overgrown with weeds;
Its surface was covered with (C)weeds,
And its stone (D)wall was broken down.
32 When I saw, I [c]reflected upon it;
I looked, and received instruction.
33 (E)A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest,”
34 Then your poverty will come like [d]a drifter,
And your need like [e]an armed man.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:30 Lit an idle
  2. Proverbs 24:30 Lit heart
  3. Proverbs 24:32 Lit set my heart
  4. Proverbs 24:34 Lit one who moves about
  5. Proverbs 24:34 Lit a man with a shield

13 The slacker says, “There’s a lion in the road—
a lion in the public square!” (A)
14 A door turns on its hinges,
and a slacker, on his bed.(B)
15 The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he is too weary to bring it to his mouth!(C)
16 In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser(D)
than seven who can answer sensibly.

Read full chapter

13 [a]A (A)lazy one says, “There is a lion on the road!
A lion is [b]in the public square!”
14 As the door turns on its hinges,
So does a (B)lazy one on his bed.
15 A (C)lazy one buries his hand in the dish;
He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.
16 A lazy one is (D)wiser in his own eyes
Than seven people who can [c]give a discreet answer.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:13 Lit an idle, and so throughout the ch
  2. Proverbs 26:13 Lit within
  3. Proverbs 26:16 Lit return discreetly