Ecclesiastes 4:5

Good News Translation

They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death.

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I am ready to risk my life.

You do yourself a favor when you are kind. If you are cruel, you only hurt yourself.

If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after, but if you work hard, you will get a fortune.

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?

What the wise say brings them honor, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!