Proverbs 10:4

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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want

The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.

Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.

The slothful one reproaching will not work: he shall ask in harvest, and nothing.

I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart;

By sloth the frame work will pine away; and by the letting down of the hands, the house will drop.

Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.

And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:

And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;

The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat

The purposes of the active only to abundance; and every one hastening only to want

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.