Proverbs - Sluggard! Various verses from the book of Proverbs

Various Verses from Proverbs

6:6-11           Go to the ant, you sluggard;

consider its ways and be wise!

It has no commander,

no overseer or ruler,

yet it stores its provisions in summer

and gathers its food at harvest.

How long will you lie there, you sluggard?

When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest –

and poverty will come on you like a thief

and scarcity like an armed man.

 

12:27             The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

 

26:15            A sluggard buries his hands in the dish;

he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

 

22:13            The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!

I’ll be killed in the public square!”

 

26:16               A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than

seven people who answer discreetly.

 

13:4               A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,

but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

 

21:25-26     The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,

because his hands refuse to work.

All day long he craves for more,

but the righteous give without sparing.

 

18:9               One who is slack in his work

is brother to one who destroys.

 

10:26            As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,

so are sluggards to those who send them.

 

24:30-34     I went past the field of a sluggard,

past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;

thorns had come up everywhere,

the ground was covered with weeds,

and the stone wall was in ruins.

I applied my heart to what I observed

and learned a lesson from what I saw:

a little sleep, a little slumber

a little folding of the hands to rest –

and poverty will come on you like a thief

and scarcity like an armed man.