“Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger” (Proverbs 19:15).
Laziness is a self-inflicted cancer of initiative and productivity. Because the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary, a lifestyle of laziness produces a bitter harvest of slothfulness, hunger, and poverty (Prov. 20:13). No successful person has snored his way into an elite accomplishment.
Like the slow and steady growth of a cancer which has metastasized, laziness methodically diminishes a person’s “get up and go”. A sluggard can become so lazy that he “buries his hand in the bowl and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again” (Prov. 19:24).
When given the fruit of her hands the virtuous woman has been productive and praiseworthy (Prov. 31:31). Not so with the lazy. Because he has done nothing, the fruit of his hands is nothing. He reaps exactly as he has sown.
Beware of the self-inflicted cancer of laziness.
