Bible Verses About Slothfulness

Go to the ant, you lazybones! Consider its ways, and be wise.

It has no chief, overseer or ruler;

yet it provides its food in summer and gathers its supplies at harvest-time.

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.

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes is a lazy person to his employer.

The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor.

A lazy man doesn't roast what he hunted; but when a man is diligent, his wealth is precious.

The lazy person wants but doesn't have; the diligent get their desires filled.

The lazy person's way seems overgrown by thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Whoever is lazy in doing his work is brother to the destroyer.

Laziness makes people fall asleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

The lazy person buries his hand in the dish but doesn't even bother to bring it to his mouth.

A lazy person won't plow in winter; so at harvest-time, when he looks, there is nothing.

A lazy man's craving will kill him, because his hands refuse to work -

A lazy man says, "There's a lion outside! I'll be killed if I go out in the street!"

for both drunkard and glutton will become poor -drowsiness will clothe them with rags

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 looked, and I thought about it; I saw, and I learned this lesson:

"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.