A sluggard does not plow in season;
so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.
—Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard—variously translated as slacker or slothful—has laid down his tools, decided not to work.
Or just decided not to decide. He has given up being productive; his theme song is Que Sera, Sera—whatever will be, will be.
He lives in drift mode; no undertaking is so important that it can’t wait until tomorrow.
A Polish proverb has it this way: “For the diligent a week has seven days, for the slothful seven tomorrows.”
The slothful, under excuse of unfavorable weather, refuses to plant or plow until it’s too late. “There is a time for everything, a season for every activity . . . A time to plant and a time to harvest” (Eccl 3:1, 2).
No planting, no harvesting.
Sloth is one of the so-called Seven Deadly Sins. It deserves the honor.
Major difficulties are minor to the diligent.
Minor difficulties are major to the slothful.