⁹ But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?
    When will you wake up?

²⁶ Lazy people irritate their employers,
    like vinegar to the teeth or smoke in the eyes.

¹⁹ A lazy person’s way is blocked with briers,
    but the path of the upright is an open highway.

²⁴ Lazy people take food in their hand
    but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

⁴ Those too lazy to plow in the right season
    will have no food at the harvest.

²⁵ Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin,
    for their hands refuse to work.

²⁶ Some people are always greedy for more,
    but the godly love to give!

¹³ The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there!
    If I go outside, I might be killed!”

³⁰ I walked by the field of a lazy person,
    the vineyard of one with no common sense.
³¹ I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
    It was covered with weeds,
    and its walls were broken down.
³² Then, as I looked and thought about it,
    I learned this lesson:
³³ A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest—
³⁴ then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
    scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

¹³ The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion on the road!
    Yes, I’m sure there’s a lion out there!”

¹⁴ As a door swings back and forth on its hinges,
    so the lazy person turns over in bed.

¹⁵ Lazy people take food in their hand
    but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

¹⁶ Lazy people consider themselves smarter
    than seven wise counselors.