Ecclesiastes 10:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Because of laziness, the rafters sag; when hands are slack, the house leaks.

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The diligent hand will govern, but sloth makes for forced labor.

Wisdom builds her house, but Folly tears hers down with her own hands.

In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.

The desire of sluggards will slay them, for their hands refuse to work.

For drunkards and gluttons come to poverty, and lazing about clothes one in rags.

We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end,