⁵ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

⁴ He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

²⁹ He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

²³ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

²⁴ For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

²⁵ The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

²⁶ The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

²⁷ And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

²² He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

¹¹ And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹² That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.