A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.
Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.
Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a lazy person in bed.
Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;
for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”