Until when will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Understand you brutish ones among the people; yea, you fools, when will you be wise?
Until when, ones of simplicity, will you love simplicity? And will scorning ones desire scorning for themselves? And will fools hate knowledge?
Laziness makes one fall into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall be hungry.
Do not love sleep, lest you be dispossessed; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
As the door turns on its hinge, so the lazy one on his bed.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;
Go to the ant, lazy man; see her ways and be wise;
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil that you may be saved. Until when will your thoughts of iniquity lodge within you?
There was a man having been sent from God; his name was John.
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.
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