Proverbs 21:25

A slacker’s craving will kill him
because his hands refuse to work.

The slacker craves, yet has nothing,
but the diligent is fully satisfied.

Go to the ant, you slacker!
Observe its ways and become wise.

The diligent hand will rule,
but laziness will lead to forced labor.

A lazy man doesn’t roast his game,
but to a diligent man, his wealth is precious.

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth.

The slacker does not plow during planting season;
at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!”

I went by the field of a slacker
and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.

The slacker says, “There’s a lion in the road—
a lion in the public square!”

In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser
than seven men who can answer sensibly.

“But his master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy slave! If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered,

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