"And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, 'Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

So Haman came in, and the king asked him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman thought in his heart, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"

"And he thought within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?'

What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation [which] will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their [own] power; And My people love [to have it] so. But what will you do in the end?

What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD?

So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" Then the Lord [said] to him, "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

The soul of a lazy [man] desires, and [has] nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

The way of the lazy [man is] like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the upright [is] a highway.

He who is slothful in his work Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.

Laziness casts [one] into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.

The desire of the lazy [man] kills him, For his hands refuse to labor.

He covets greedily all day long, But the righteous gives and does not spare.

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.

The lazy [man] says, "[There is] a lion in the road! A fierce lion [is] in the streets!"

The lazy [man] buries his hand in the bowl; It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, [And] attend to your herds;

[When] the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,

[You shall have] enough goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And the nourishment of your maidservants.

He who pampers his servant from childhood Will have him as a son in the end.

For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies.

"But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,

"So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

The lazy [man] will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and [have] nothing.

Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.

Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;