“By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 10 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.