Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.
He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.
And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.
She also rises while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task to her maidens.