Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.