Proverbs 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!–[Job 12:7.] American Standard Version (1901) Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise: Common English Bible Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise. Catholic Public Domain Version Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom: |
Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.
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.
The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to the mouth.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.
The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”
the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
Even the stork in the heavens knows its times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.
But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.