Ecclesiastes 10:18

English Standard Version 2016

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

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The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.