Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

懒惰人哪，你去察看蚂蚁的动作就可得智慧。

懒惰人哪，你去察看蚂蚁的动作，就可得智慧。

懒惰人哪，你去察看蚂蚁的动作，就可得智慧。

懒惰的人啊，去看看蚂蚁，观察它的生活，就会有智慧。

懒惰人哪！你去看看蚂蚁，察看它们所行的，就可得着智慧。

懒惰的人哪，你当到蚂蚁那里去，观看它的行为，得着智慧！

懶惰人哪，你去察看螞蟻的動作就可得智慧。

懶惰人哪，你去察看螞蟻的動作，就可得智慧。

懶惰人哪，你去察看螞蟻的動作，就可得智慧。

懶惰的人啊，去看看螞蟻，觀察牠的生活，就會有智慧。

懶惰人哪！你去看看螞蟻，察看牠們所行的，就可得著智慧。

懶惰人哪，去找螞蟻，看牠們所行的，來做有智慧的人。

懶惰的人哪，你當到螞蟻那裡去，觀看牠的行為，得著智慧！

怠惰者歟、往視厥蟻、察其所為、可得智慧、

怠惰者流、盍觀螻蟻、而法其智、

怠惰者歟、爾往觀蟻之動作、可得智慧、

You people who don’t want to work, think about the ant! Consider its ways and be wise!

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!

Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.

Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise,

Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

“ His master replied,‘ You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?

As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them.

Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

A sluggard says,“ There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!”As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.

I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

“ But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.

The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.

The sluggard says,“ There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”

A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

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

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”