Thematic Bible: Who will end up in poverty
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Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.
Pleasure lovers become poor; loving wine and oil doesn't bring riches.
Do not love sleep or you'll become poor, keep your eyes open and you'll have plenty of food.
Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Don't associate with heavy drinkers or dine with gluttons, because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed. As I observed, I thought about it; I watched, and learned a lesson: read more.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
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