CONSIDER THE ANT, YOU SLUGGARD

(Prov. 6,  Prov. 21:25, Prov. 23:13, II Thess. 3:6-15)

 The lazy man is a sluggard;

He spends a lot of time smirking,

For when everyone else works hard,

He is hardly working.

 A sluggard cannot be trusted,

To do what he says he will do.

His excuses are wild, his words are charming,

All the while he’s ignoring you.

 The sluggard is very wise,

But only in his own eyes.

He thinks that people are fools,

And that they believe his lies.

 The sluggard can’t keep a job;

He is often shown the door.

So when a man’s hands are idle,

He and his family live poor.

 He doesn’t plow in season,

But checks for a magical crop.

He fears a lion or a murderer,

Making any excuse to stop.

 The sluggard arrives to work late,

And is always the first to leave.

And that’s if he has a job at all,

Because work is his pet peeve.

 He should consider the ant;

That works though it never gets paid.

No one tells it what to do,

Yet the “groundwork” always gets laid.

Becky Wall

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Links: https://beckyowall.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-biblical-guide-to-employer-employee.html

https://beckyowall.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-terminator-and-terminated.html

https://beckyowall.blogspot.com/2013/07/solomon-addresses-subject-of-labor_15.html