Ecclesiastes 10:18

A Conservative Version

By slothfulness the roof sinks in, and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

And we earnestly desire each of you to show the same diligence toward the full assurance of the hope until the end,

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work.