Ecclesiastes 10:18

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

By sloth the frame work will pine away; and by the letting down of the hands, the house will drop.

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The wise woman built her house but the foolish will pull it down with her hands.

The slothful one reproaching will not work: he shall ask in harvest, and nothing.

And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:

For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.

The desire of the slothful shall kill him, for his hands refused to work,

The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.