“He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 10 contains 32 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.