³ "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

⁶ So Haman came in. The king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

⁵ What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, And in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

⁴⁶ They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

¹⁷ He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

²⁰ A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

²² It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

⁴ He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

⁸ The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"

² A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

⁶ But{TR omits "But" } rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

³¹ the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?

³ What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?

²¹ He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, But the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, But the path of the upright is a highway.

⁹ One who is slack in his work Is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard kills him, For his hands refuse to labor.

²⁶ There are those who covet greedily all the day long; But the righteous give and don't withhold.

³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard, By the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

³¹ Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

³² Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

³⁴ So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

¹⁴ As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.

¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.

²³ Know well the state of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds:

²⁴ For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

²⁵ The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, The grasses of the hills are gathered in.

²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field.

²⁷ There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.