You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.
Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.
For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?
The foolish man folds his hands together, and he consumes his own flesh, saying: