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You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up? 10 You say, “I need a rest. I think I’ll take a short nap.” 11 But then you sleep and sleep and become poorer and poorer. Soon you will have nothing. It will be as if a thief came and stole everything you owned.

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How long will you lie there, you sluggard?(A)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest(B)
11 and poverty(C) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

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