Ecclesiastes 10:18

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The highness of houses shall be made low in sloths; and the house shall drop rain in the feebleness of hands.

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The hand of strong men shall have lordship; but the hand that is slow, shall serve to tributes.

A wise woman buildeth her house; and an unwise woman shall destroy with hands, that is, with her evil works, an house builded.

A slow man would not ear for cold; therefore he shall beg in summer, and men shall not give to him.

Desires slay a slow man; for his hands would not work anything.

For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.

And we covet that each of you show the same busyness to the [full]-filling of hope into the end;