怠者惟思寢、惰者必致飢。

懒惰使人沉睡；懈怠的人必受饥饿。

懒惰使人沉睡，懈怠的人必捱饿。

懒惰使人沉睡，懈怠的人必捱饿。

懒惰使人沉睡，懈怠使人挨饿。

懒惰使人沉睡，闲懒的人必受饥饿。

懒惰使人陷入沉睡，懒散的人必会挨饿。

懶惰使人沉睡；懈怠的人必受飢餓。

懶惰使人沉睡，懈怠的人必捱餓。

懶惰使人沉睡，懈怠的人必捱餓。

懶惰使人沉睡，懈怠使人挨餓。

懶惰使人沉睡，閒懶的人必受飢餓。

懶惰能使人沉睡；懈怠的人必受饑餓。

懶惰使人陷入沉睡，懶散的人必會挨餓。

懈怠致酣眠、惰者受飢餓、

怠者惟思酣寢、惰者必致饑餓、

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Anyone who doesn’t want to work sleeps his life away. And a person who refuses to work goes hungry.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry.

Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And a lazy person will suffer hunger.

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

蓋饕餮甘酒、必致貧、思寢之人必衣敝。

毋貪寢、恐遭貧乏、宜興作、可得果腹、

人束手而寢、言欲少寐、俄頃即起、

惟爾懈惰思寢、何時得寤。爾束手而寢、言欲少寐、俄傾即起、

我昔在爾中命爾云、人不操作、勿予之食、

經云、寢宜寤、死當起、基督賜爾光、

惰則致貧、勤則致富。及夏而斂者可為智、當秋而寢者人所羞。

凡此皆所當行、因知屆期、今宜寤矣、較我初信之時、福更近之、夜既央、晝伊邇、當解行暗之衣、服光明之甲、

民之戍卒、目眯不明、守夜之犬、喑不能吠、或偃卧、或假寐。

惰者即染指於盂、取饌入口、猶憚其難。