⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷ It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹ and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

⁴ Lazy hands make for poverty,^(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.^(B)

⁵ He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.^(A)

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth and smoke^(A) to the eyes,
    so are sluggards to those who send them.^(B)

⁹ Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
    than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

²⁴ Diligent hands will rule,
    but laziness ends in forced labor.^(A)

²⁷ The lazy do not roast^[a] any game,
    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

⁴ A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,^(A)
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

²³ All hard work brings a profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.