^9 (A)How long will you lie there, ^(B)O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
^10 (C)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    ^(D)a little ^(E)folding of the hands to rest,
^11 (F)and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

⁴ A slack hand ^(A)causes poverty,
    ^(B)but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

^4 (A)The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent ^(B)is richly supplied.

^15 (A)Slothfulness casts into ^(B)a deep sleep,
    and ^(C)an idle person will suffer hunger.

^24 (A)The hand of the diligent will rule,
    while the slothful will be ^(B)put to forced labor.

^4 (A)The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
    ^(B)he will seek at harvest and have nothing.