Do not love sleep, lest you be dispossessed; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
He who works with a lazy palm will be lacking, but the hand of the diligent one makes to become rich.
He who works his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he chasing vanities lacks heart.
A sluggish one’s soul is craving, but having nothing, but the soul of the diligent ones shall be made fat.
Laziness makes one fall into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall be hungry.
An evil thing! An evil thing, says the buyer, but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
He who works his ground shall have plenty of bread, but one pursuing vanities shall be sated with poverty.
She also rises while it is still night and gives game to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
And the chief of the seamen came near to him and said to him, What is it to you, one fast sleeping? Rise up, cry out to your god! Perhaps your god will think of us, and we will not perish.
in diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Also this, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for you to be aroused from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
Be sober uprightly, and do not sin; for some have ignorance of God. I speak to your shame.
Therefore He says, “Rise up, the one sleeping, and stand up out of the dead ones, and Christ will shine on you.” No O. T. passage
For even when we were with you, we commanded this to you: If anyone wills not to work, neither let him eat.