Proverbs 10:4-5

⁴Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.d

⁵A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace.

Proverbs 10 marks a decisive shift in the book of Proverbs. The extended discourses of chapters 1–9 give way to a collection of individual, pithy sayings—the first of several Solomonic collections. Each verse is a self-contained unit, typically a two-line parallelism contrasting the