Proverbs 6:11

New English Translation

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

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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.

Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

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

because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

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

The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.