Bible verses about "sluggard" | BBE

¹⁵ And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: ⁷ Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. ⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

¹² The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

²⁵ The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; ³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. ³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: ⁷ Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

⁴ The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

⁹ He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.