Bible Verses About Instruction: General references

I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:

And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.

Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.

And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.