You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.

Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveler, and your need as a swift courier. [ 6:11A] But if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

A deceitful man shall catch no game, but a blameless man is a precious possession.

Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed; so also he who borrows grain in harvest.

The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.

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

while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

A merciful man does good to his own soul, but the merciless destroys his own body.

But [one] shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.