The Sluggard

• Heart
• Rising

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? read more Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. show less

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

• Sarcasm
• Seven

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

• Hinges
• House

As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.