He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The words of a whisperer are as dainty, morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; The same is the companion of a destroyer.
But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.