Thematic Bible: Lazy people
Thematic Bible
Laziness » Lazy people
at harvest time he looks,
but the diligent is fully satisfied.
and a lazy person will go hungry.
but laziness will lead to forced labor.
I’ll be killed in the public square!”
but the path of the upright is a highway.
is brother to a vandal.
I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense. Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined. I saw, and took it to heart; I looked, and received instruction: read more.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest, and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest, and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring riches. The son who gathers during summer is prudent; the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.
A slacker's craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work. He is filled with craving all day long, but the righteous give and don't hold back.
The slacker says, "There's a lion in the road- a lion in the public square!" A door turns on its hinge, and a slacker, on his bed. The slacker buries his hand in the bowl; he is too weary to bring it to his mouth. read more.
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.
Related Topics
- Active Lifestyles
- Begging
- Boredom
- Business Ethics
- Capitalism
- Cold, Figurative Use
- Cultivation
- Destitutes
- Diligence And Laziness Contrasted
- Diligence, Results Of
- Diligence, Rewards Of
- Employees
- Excuses
- Farmers
- Farming
- Forced Labour
- Giving, Of Time
- Hard Tasks
- Harvest
- Highway