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Proverbs 6:11

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and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

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Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

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

and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.