the ant
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 1:17
It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 12:7
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; [ask] the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding-trough, [but] Israel does not know; My people do not understand."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 6:26
Look at the birds of the sky: they don't sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they?
thou
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 6:9
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 10:26
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so the slacker is to the one who sends him [on an errand].
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 13:4
The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 15:19
A slacker's way is like a thorny hedge, but the path of the upright is a highway.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 18:9
The one who is truly lazy in his work is brother to a vandal.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 19:15
Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 19:24
The slacker buries his hand in the bowl; he doesn't even bring it back to his mouth.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 20:4
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 21:25
A slacker's craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 22:13
The slacker says, "There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the streets!"
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 24:30-34
30
I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.
31
Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.
32
I saw, and took it to heart; I looked, and received instruction:
33
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
34
and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 26:13-16
13
The slacker says, "There's a lion in the road-- a lion in the public square!"
14
A door turns on its hinge, and a slacker, on his bed.
15
The slacker buries his hand in the bowl; he is too weary to bring it to his mouth.
16
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 25:26
"But his master replied to him, 'You evil, lazy slave! If you knew that I reap where I haven't sown and gather where I haven't scattered,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 12:11
Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_58 6:12
so that you won't become lazy, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.