Proverbs 20:4

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

A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.

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

The slothful one said, A lion in the way; a lion between the broad places.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down:

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

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

Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them.

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

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

The desire of the slothful shall kill him, for his hands refused to work,

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

He watching the wind shall not sow; and he looking in the clouds, shall not reap.