It does no good to spread a net when the bird you want to catch is watching,

Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;

ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."

Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds?

How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?

Never get a lazy person to do something for you; he will be as irritating as vinegar on your teeth or smoke in your eyes.

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

If you are lazy, you will meet difficulty everywhere, but if you are honest, you will have no trouble.

A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.

I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.

I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:

but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of ? Lions?

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

'You bad and lazy servant!' his master said. 'You knew, did you, that I reap harvests where I did not plant, and gather crops where I did not scatter seed?

Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.