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

²⁴ Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.

⁴ He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

²⁶ "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

²⁰ Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat:

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.

¹² that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

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.

¹¹ not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

¹ He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

² He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

¹³ Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

¹⁴ When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.