Son, if you are wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. [ 9:12A] He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: [ 9:12B] for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own cart to go astray; [ 9:12C] and he goes through a dry desert, and [a land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

With everyone who is careful there is abundance, but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want.

All the labor of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

in order that you may walk decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat!

And to such [people] we command and urge by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.