Proverbs 20:4

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

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.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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

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

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

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

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

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

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

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?

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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

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,

One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

“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.

She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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 liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

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 buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

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.

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

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.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

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.”

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

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

Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

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

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

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

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

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.

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

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.

I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

“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.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.