Proverbs 19:15

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Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!

His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets!