For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or respect people,

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "There is someone I wish very much to honor. What should I do for this man?" Haman thought to himself, "Now who could the king want to honor so much? Me, of course."

He began to think to himself, 'I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?

What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?"

And when the time comes for the appointed festivals in honor of the LORD, what will they do then?

"But get up and go into the city, where you will be told what you must do."

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

If you are lazy, you will meet difficulty everywhere, but if you are honest, you will have no trouble.

A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

all they do is think about what they would like to have. The righteous, however, can give, and give generously.

I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.

I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:

but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of ? Lions?

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can,

You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing.

The rest of the goats will provide milk for you and your family, and for your servant women as well.

If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.

We say this because we hear that there are some people among you who live lazy lives and who do nothing except meddle in other people's business.

There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,

A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

They came to Jericho, and as Jesus was leaving with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.

His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"

There at the Beautiful Gate, as it was called, was a man who had been lame all his life. Every day he was carried to the gate to beg for money from the people who were going into the Temple.