Poverty brings a man low, but the hands of the vigorous make rich. [ 10:4A] A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.

Be not a winebibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh;

for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor, and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard.

Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction.

But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your need like a swift courier.

"But his lord answered and said to him, 'You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter.

not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

lest you become dull, but [become] imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he does not sin, the same is partaker with an ungodly man.

I have become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

And not many days after, having gathered together all things, the younger son went on a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

But when he had spent everything, there arose a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

He also said to His disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this [man] was accused to him as wasting his possessions.

And calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'