Proverbs 26:13

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.

Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

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.”

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.

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.”

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

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

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

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.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

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?’

I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’

“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.

“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.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

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

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.