Proverbs 12:27

The Message

A lazy life is an empty life, but “early to rise” gets the job done.

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Less is more and more is less. One righteous will outclass fifty wicked, For the wicked are moral weaklings but the righteous are God-strong.

Sloth makes you poor; diligence brings wealth.

A good person survives misfortune, but a wicked life invites disaster.

Indolence wants it all and gets nothing; the energetic have something to show for their lives.

A simple life in the Fear-of-God is better than a rich life with a ton of headaches.

Far better to be right and poor than to be wrong and rich.

Just as a door turns on its hinges, so a lazybones turns back over in bed.

A shiftless sluggard puts his fork in the pie, but is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.