CONSIDER THE ANT, YOU SLUGGARD

CONSIDER THE ANT, YOU SLUGGARD

(Prov. 6:6-11, Prov. 20:4, Prov. 21:25, Prov. 23:13, Prov. 26:13-16, 

Prov. 30:24-25, II Thess. 3:6-15, Heb. 6:12, Eph. 4:28)

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 lazy man 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'd do well to consider the ambitious ant;

That works though it never gets paid.

No one tells it what to do,

Yet the “groundwork” always gets laid.

Becky Wall

Proverbs 6:6-11 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 18:9

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

Proverbs 20:4

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

Proverbs 22:13

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

Proverbs 26:13-16

A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!” 14 As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. 15 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;

he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.

Proverbs 28:19

Those who work their land will have abundant food,

but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.

Prov. 30:24-25

“Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise: Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer...

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith

 and patience inherit what has been promised.

II Thessalonians 3:10b

“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Ephesians 4:28:

“He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.”

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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