Proverbs 10:4

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

¹⁵Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

⁴The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

⁵The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

²⁴The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; ⁷which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep— ¹¹so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

¹³Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

²⁴The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

²⁴There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.