Bible verses about "sluggard" | Brenton

¹⁵ And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. ^(6:8A) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; ^(6:8B) whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: ^(6:8C) though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom. ⁹ How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: ^(6:11A) but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

¹⁴ As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed.

¹² A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.

²⁵ Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.

³⁰ A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard. ³¹ If thou let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down. ³² Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction. ³³ The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast. ³⁴ But if thou do this, thy poverty will come speedily; and thy want like a swift courier.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. ^(6:8A) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; ^(6:8B) whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: ^(6:8C) though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.

⁴ A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.

⁹ A man who helps not himself by his labour is brother of him that ruins himself.

⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.