Proverbs 6:11

A Conservative Version

so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

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The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

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

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.