New Revised Standard Version
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Contemporary English Version
If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest.

New American Bible
In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

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Proverbs 10:4 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 19:15,24 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. . . .

Proverbs 26:13-16 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads. . . .

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Proverbs 6:10,11 And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee. . . .

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 24:34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Matthew 25:3-10,24-28 But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them. . . .

2 Peter 1:5-11 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: . . .