Bible verses about "sluggard" | DouayRheims

¹⁵ And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom: ⁷ Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain, ⁸ Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep: ¹¹ And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

¹⁴ As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

¹² The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

²⁵ Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.

⁸ But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

³⁰ I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: ³¹ And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. ³² Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction. ³³ Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest. ³⁴ And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom: ⁷ Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain, ⁸ Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁴ Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

⁹ He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.

⁴ The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.