For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.