Proverbs 6:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Sleep a little. Doze a little. Fold your hands and twiddle your thumbs.

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If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.

If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.

It will make you feel drowsy, and you will end up poor with only rags to wear.

You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill.

How long will you lie there doing nothing at all? When are you going to get up and stop sleeping?

Fools will fold their hands and starve to death.