⁹ He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he `is' to a destroyer.

²⁴ Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

⁴ Poor `is' he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

²⁶ `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

²⁰ Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

²¹ For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

³⁰ Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.

³¹ And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

³² And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,

³³ A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.

³⁴ And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

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

¹ And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

² and having called him, he said to him, What `is' this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

²⁹ A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.