Bible verses about "sluggard" | Coverdale

¹⁵ And the LORDE God toke man, & set him in the pleasaunt garden of Eden, to dresse it & to kepe it.

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder: ⁸ yet in the sommer she prouideth hir meate, & gathereth hir foode together i ye haruest. ⁹ How loge wilt thou slepe, thou slogish ma? Wha wilt thou aryse out of thy slepe? ¹⁰ Yee slepe on still a litle, slober a litle, folde thine handes together yet a litle, that thou mayest slepe: ¹¹ so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse.

¹⁴ Like as the dore turneth aboute vpon the tresholde, euen so doth the slouthfull welter himself in his bedd.

¹² A wyse man seynge the plage wyl hyde him self, as for fooles they go on still, and suffer harme.

²⁵ The voluptuousnesse of the slouthfull is his owne death, for his hades wyll not labor.

⁸ But yf there be eny man that prouydeth not for his awne, and specially for them of his houssholde, the same hath denyed the faith, and is worse then an infydele.

³⁰ I wente by ye felde of ye slouthfull, & by ye vynyarde of the foolish ma. ³¹ And lo, it was all couered wt nettels, & stode full of thistles, & ye stone wall was broke downe. ³² This I sawe, & cosidered it wel: I loked vpo it, & toke it for a warnynge. ³³ Yee slepe on still a litle, slobre a litle, folde thine hodes together yet a litle: ³⁴ so shall pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by ye waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder: ⁸ yet in the sommer she prouideth hir meate, & gathereth hir foode together i ye haruest.

⁴ A slouthfull body wyl not go to plowe for colde, therfore shal he go abegginge in Sommer, and haue nothinge.

⁹ Who so is slouthfull and slacke in his labor, is ye brother of him ye is a waister.

⁴ The slogarde wolde fayne haue, and can not get his desyre: but the soule of the diligent shal haue plenty.