And to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

then let thistles come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

For thus says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the Word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.

but if it bears thorns and briars, it is unfit and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned up.

The fear of Jehovah tends to life, and he rests satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

The sluggard will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg during harvest and have nothing.

The sluggard says, There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!

for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and slumber shall clothe a man with rags.

Because of laziness the building decays; and through idleness of hands the house leaks.