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Proverbs 20:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

The lazy person buries a hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to the mouth.

The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.

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

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways and be wise.

Whoever observes the wind will not sow, and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.