Ecclesiastes 10:18

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,