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Proverbs 6:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Then poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like a brigand.

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The slack hand impoverishes, but the busy hand brings riches.

The appetite of the sluggard craves but has nothing, but the appetite of the diligent is amply satisfied.

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the sluggard goes hungry.

Do not love sleep lest you be reduced to poverty; keep your eyes open, have your fill of food.

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

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

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest—

Then poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like a brigand.

“Fools fold their arms and consume their own flesh”—