A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man—a final warning that small indulgences in laziness accumulate to poverty, establishing that there is no harmless amount of sloth. The repetition (little...little...little) emphasizes the deceptive gradualism. The theological significance involves the principle that small compromises with vice compound catastrophically.

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