²⁴ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

¹⁹ Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

¹¹ Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

²⁷ He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²³ And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.

²⁰ And he said to them, It is one of the twelve, one who is putting his bread with me into the same plate.