He who has a slack hand becomes poor, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Do not mix with winebibbers, [Or] with gluttonous eaters of meat;

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.

I went by the field of the lazy [man,] And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;

When I saw [it,] I considered [it] well; I looked on [it and] received instruction:

So shall your poverty come [like] a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

"But his lord answered and said to him, 'You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.

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

that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, And says, "[It is] no transgression," The same [is] companion to a destroyer.

I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

"And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

"But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

He also said to His disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

"So he called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.'