You people who don’t want to work, think about the ant! 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、

Go to the ant, you sluggard; 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;

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.

Anyone who refuses to work doesn’t plow in the right season. When they look for a crop at harvest time, they don’t find it.

“ His master replied,‘ You evil, lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I have not planted? You knew that I gather crops where I have not scattered seed?

Those who don’t want to work hurt those who send them. They are like vinegar on the teeth or smoke in the eyes.

The first are ants, which aren’t very strong. But they store up their food in the summer.

Anyone who doesn’t want to work is like someone who destroys.

You lazy people, how long will you lie there? When will you get up from your sleep?

We don’t want you to slow down. Instead, be like those who have faith and are patient. They will receive what God promised.

Stay excited about your faith as you serve the Lord.

A person who doesn’t want to work says,“ There’s a lion in the road! There’s an angry lion wandering in the streets!”A person who doesn’t want to work turns over in bed just like a door that swings back and forth.A person who doesn’t want to work leaves his hand in his plate. He acts as if he is too tired to bring his hand back up to his mouth.A person who doesn’t want to work is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who give careful answers.

I went past the field of someone who didn’t want to work. I went past the vineyard of someone who didn’t have any sense.Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds. The stone wall had fallen down.I applied my heart to what I observed. I learned a lesson from what I saw.You might sleep a little or take a little nap. You might even fold your hands and rest.Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you. You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.

“ But ask the animals what God does. They will teach you. Or ask the birds in the sky. They will tell you.Or speak to the earth. It will teach you. Or let the fish in the ocean educate you.

Some people will die while they are still hungry. That’s because their hands refuse to work.

People who don’t want to work say,“ There’s a lion outside!” Or they say,“ I’ll be murdered if I go out into the streets!”

A person who doesn’t want to work leaves his hand in the dish. He won’t even bring it back up to his mouth!

Anyone who doesn’t want to work sleeps his life away. And a person who refuses to work goes hungry.

The way of people who don’t want to work is blocked with thorns. But the path of honest people is a wide road.

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

Look at the birds of the air. They don’t plant or gather crops. They don’t put away crops in storerooms. But your Father who is in heaven feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?

The ox knows its master. The donkey knows where its owner feeds it. But Israel does not know me. My people do not understand me.”