⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(A)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(B)—
¹¹ and poverty^(C) 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)

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

²⁵ The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,^(A)
    because his hands refuse to work.