Proverbs 10:4-5

⁴Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.d

⁵He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

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