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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 6:6–11

Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. / Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, / it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 10:4, 5, 26

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. / He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. / Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 12:9, 24, 27

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food. / The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor. / A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 13:4

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 14:23

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 18:9

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 19:15, 24

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger. / The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:4, 13

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there. / Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 21:25, 26

The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work. / All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 22:13

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 24:30–34

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment. / Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down. / I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 26:13–16

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!” / As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed. / The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 16:49

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 20:6, 7

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked. / ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 19:20–25

Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth. / For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’ / His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 11

For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.” / Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

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Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 5:13

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

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