Ecclesiastes 10:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

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The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

And we want each one of you to show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope to the very end,

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor.