Bible Verses About Idleness: General references

Lazybones! How long will you lie there in bed? When will you get up from your sleep?

"I'll just lie here a bit, rest a little longer, just fold my hands for a little more sleep"-

and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier.

Idle hands bring poverty; diligent hands bring wealth.

A sensible person gathers in summer, but he who sleeps during harvest is an embarrassment.

I passed by the field of the lazy man and the vineyard of the man lacking sense.

There it was, overgrown with thistles; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

"I'll just lie here a bit, rest a little longer, just fold my hands for a little more sleep"-

and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier.

The lazy person says, "There's a lion in the streets! A lion is roaming loose out there!"

The door turns on its hinges, and the lazy man on his bed.

The lazy person buries his hand in the dish but is too tired to return it to his mouth.

A lazy man is wiser in his own view than seven who can answer with sense.

About an hour before sundown, he went out, found still others standing around, and asked them, `Why have you been standing here all day, doing nothing?"

They said to him, `Because no one hired us.' `You too,' he told them, `go to the vineyard.'

“Then another one came and said, ‘Sir, here is your maneh. I kept it hidden in a piece of cloth,

because I was afraid of you — you take out what you didn’t put in, and you harvest what you didn’t plant.’

To him the master said, ‘You wicked servant! I will judge you by your own words! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, taking out what I didn’t put in and harvesting what I didn’t plant?

Then why didn’t you put my money in the bank? Then, when I returned, I would have gotten it back with interest!’

To those standing by, he said, ‘Take the maneh from him and give it to the one with ten manim.’

They said to him, ‘Sir, he already has ten manim!’

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: if someone won’t work, he shouldn’t eat!

We hear that some of you are leading a life of idleness — not busy working, just busybodies!