Laziness

I once walked by the field and the vineyard of a lazy fool. Thorns and weeds were everywhere, and the stone wall had fallen down.

How long will you lie there doing nothing at all? When are you going to get up and stop sleeping?

When I saw this, it taught me a lesson: Sleep a little. Doze a little. Fold your hands and twiddle your thumbs. Suddenly, everything is gone, as though it had been taken by an armed robber.

You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill. Ants don’t have leaders, but they store up food during harvest season. -- Proverbs 6:6-10 & Proverbs 24:30-34

Laziness leads to poverty; hard work makes you rich. -- Proverbs 10:4 (CEV)

Hard work will give you power; being lazy will make you a slave. -- Proverbs 12:24 (GNT)

Anyone too lazy to cook will starve, but a hard worker is a valuable treasure. -- Proverbs 12:27 (CEV)

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants. -- Proverbs 13:4 (GNT)

Hard work is worthwhile, but empty talk will make you poor. -- Proverbs 14:23 (CEV)

Being lazy is like walking in a thorn patch, but everyone who does right walks on a smooth road. -- Proverbs 15:19 (CEV)

Being lazy is no different from being a troublemaker. -- Proverbs 18:9 (CEV)

If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve. -- Proverbs 19:15 (CEV); Proverbs 20:13

Some people are too lazy to lift a hand to feed themselves. -- Proverbs 19:24 (CEV); Proverbs 26:15

If you are too lazy to plow, don’t expect a harvest. -- Proverbs 20:4 (CEV)

Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread. -- Proverbs 20:13 (MKJV)

If you want too much and are too lazy to work, it could be fatal. -- Proverbs 21:25 (CEV)

Don’t be so lazy that you say, “If I go to work, a lion will eat me!” -- Proverbs 22:13 (CEV); Proverbs 26:13

A door turns on its hinges, but a lazy person just turns over in bed. -- Proverbs 26:14 (CEV)

A lazy person says, “I am smarter than everyone else.” -- Proverbs 26:16 (CEV)

A hardworking farmer has plenty to eat. People who waste time will always be poor. -- Proverbs 28:19 (GNT)

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead --- and that is where you are going. -- Ecc 9:10 (GNT)

Some people are too lazy to fix a leaky roof – then the house falls in. Ecc 10:18 (CEV)

Disobedience

But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess — if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. -- Deuteronomy 15:4-5 (ESV)

Ignorance

All who refuse correction will be poor and disgraced; all who accept correction will be praised. -- Proverbs 13:18 (CEV)

Wasteful Lifestyle

Indulging in luxuries, wine, and rich food will never make you wealthy. -- Proverbs 21:17 (GNT)

Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags. -- Proverbs 23:21 (GNT)

If you appreciate wisdom, your parents will be proud of you. It is a foolish waste to spend money on prostitutes. -- Proverbs 29:3 (GNT)

Feasting makes you happy and wine cheers you up, but you can’t have either without money. -- Ecc 10:19 (GNT)

Wickedness

Dishonesty

The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear, but not before they lead you into the jaws of death. -- Proverbs 21:6 (GNT)

Sometimes, due to greed, people will take "shortcuts" with evil plans to speed up or increase their income.

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not know that poverty will come upon him. -- Proverbs 28:22 (MKJV)

It is considered dishonest, if you deliver a product or service that are of no value or deliberately causes dissatisfaction.

Wealth [gained by] dishonesty (הֶבֶל הֲבֵל hebel = emptiness/unsatisfactory) will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. -- Proverbs 13:11 (NKJV)

Partiality

If you make gifts to rich people or oppress the poor to get rich, you will become poor yourself. -- Proverbs 22:16 (GNT)

Oppressing the poor

Don’t interfere with good people’s lives; don’t try to get the best of them. No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don’t stay down long; Soon they’re up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces. -- Proverbs 24:15-16 (GNT)

The LORD saves the righteous and protects them in times of trouble. He helps them and rescues them; He saves them from the wicked, because they go to him for protection. -- Psa 37:39-40 (GNT)

Never move an old property line or take over land owned by orphans. The LORD is their powerful defender, and he will argue their case against you. -- Proverbs 23:10-11 (GNT)

Charging interest to the poor

One who increases his possessions by usury (נֶשֶׁך neshek = interest on a debt) and (תַּרבִּיתּ tarbiyth = multiplication, i.e. percentage or bonus in addition to principal) gathers it for him who will pity the poor. -- Proverbs 28:8 (NKJV)

Arrogance

The LORD will destroy the homes of arrogant men, but he will protect a widow’s property. -- Proverbs 15:25 (GNT)

If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone’s misfortune. -- Proverbs 17:5 (GNT)