Proverbs 6:9-15

⁹How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep?

¹⁰Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.

¹¹Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier:

^11abut if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

¹²A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

¹³And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

¹⁴His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

¹⁵Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.