Proverbs 19:24

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.

Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.