Proverbs 21 for your Christian obeasts Proverbs 21:25-26, KJV  The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. ISV: What the lazy person craves will kill him, because his hands refuse to work. All day long he continues to crave, while the righteous person gives without holding back. Bonus verse! Ephesians 4:17:19, NIV: So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. "Hardening of heart" usually means being unopen to ideas or thoughts outside of what you want. Ie, Pharoah's heart was hardened against supplicating God for mercy, so he didn't do that and incurred the consequential wrath.