Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”