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Proverbs 6:11

New International Reader's Version

Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you. You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.

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Hands that don’t want to work make you poor. But hands that work hard bring wealth to you.

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.

Anyone who doesn’t want to work sleeps his life away. And a person who refuses to work goes hungry.

Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor. Stay awake, and you will have more food than you need.

Anyone who refuses to work doesn’t plow in the right season. When they look for a crop at harvest time, they don’t find it.

Those who drink or eat too much will become poor. If they sleep too much, they’ll have to wear rags.

You might sleep a little or take a little nap. You might even fold your hands and rest.

Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you. You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.

Foolish people fold their hands and don’t work. And that destroys them.