Proverbs 20:4

New English Translation

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

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The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.