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Proverbs 10:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

At harvest season it's clever to work hard, but stupid to sleep.

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Laziness leads to poverty; hard work makes you rich.

Everyone praises good people, but evil hides behind the words of the wicked.

A helpful wife is a jewel for her husband, but a shameless wife will make his bones rot.

A hard-working slave will be placed in charge of a no-good child, and that slave will be given the same inheritance that each child receives.

Children who bring disgrace rob their father and chase their mother away.

After the hay is cut and the new growth appears and the harvest is over,

ants, who seem to be feeble, but store up food all summer long;

You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill.

but they store up food during harvest season.