Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.