Ecclesiastes 10:18

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.

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A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.

The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful, shall be under tribute.