Proverbs referenced during this sermon:
6:6-11
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
11 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
24:30-34
30 I went past the field of a sluggard,
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
15:19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
22:13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!”
26:13 A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!”
26:16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven people who answer discreetly.
26:15 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
26:14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so a sluggard turns … on his bed.
19:15 Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and the shiftless go hungry.
20:13 Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;
stay awake and you will have food to spare.
14:23 All hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
12:11 Those who work their land will have abundant food,
but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
13:4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
28:19 Those who work their land will have abundant food,
but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
21:25-26 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,
because his hands refuse to work. All day long he craves for more,
but the righteous give without sparing.
10:26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so are sluggards to those who send them.
20:4 Sluggards do not plow in season;
so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
10:4 Lazy hands make for poverty,
but diligent hands bring wealth.
12:24 Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labor.
22:29 Do you see someone skilled in their work?
They will serve before kings;
they will not serve before officials of low rank.