Thematic Bible: Idleness and sloth


Thematic Bible



As the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed.

But he that had received the one went and dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord.

And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;



So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.


The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.

The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish: it wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth.



The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work:



So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.






The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!



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







I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding; and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.


I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding; and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:


And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.




A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that answer discreetly.




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: