Wealth

Poem : 601

Of household dignity the lustre beaming bright,
Flickers and dies when sluggish foulness dims its light.

Explanation :
By the darkness, of idleness, the indestructible lamp of family (rank) will be extinguished.

Poem : 602

Let indolence, the death of effort, die,
If you'd uphold your household's dignity.

Explanation :
Let those, who desire that their family may be illustrious, put away all idleness from their conduct.

Poem : 603

Who fosters indolence within his breast, the silly elf!
The house from which he springs shall perish ere himself.

Explanation :
The (lustre of the) family of the ignorant man, who acts under the influence of destructive laziness will perish, even before he is dead.

Poem : 604

His family decays, and faults unheeded thrive,
Who, sunk in sloth, for noble objects doth not strive.

Explanation :
Family (greatness) will be destroyed, and faults will increase, in those men who give way to laziness, and put forth no dignified exertions.

Poem : 605

Delay, oblivion, sloth, and sleep: these four
Are pleasure-boat to bear the doomed to ruin's shore.

Explanation :
Procrastination, forgetfulness, idleness, and sleep, these four things, form the vessel which is desired by those destined to destruction.

Poem : 606

Though lords of earth unearned possessions gain,
The slothful ones no yield of good obtain.

Explanation :
It is a rare thing for the idle, even when possessed of the riches of kings who ruled over the whole earth, to derive any great benefit from it.

Poem : 607

Who hug their sloth, nor noble works attempt,
Shall bear reproofs and words of just contempt.

Explanation :
Those who through idleness, and do not engage themselves in dignified exertion, will subject themselves to rebukes and reproaches.

Poem : 608

If sloth a dwelling find mid noble family,
Bondsmen to them that hate them shall they be.

Explanation :
If idleness take up its abode in a king of high birth, it will make him a slave of his enemies.

Poem : 609

Who changes slothful habits saves
Himself from all that household rule depraves.

Explanation :
When a man puts away idleness, the reproach which has come upon himself and his family will disappear.

Poem : 610

The king whose life from sluggishness is rid,
Shall rule o'er all by foot of mighty god bestrid.

Explanation :
The king who never gives way to idleness will obtain entire possession of (the whole earth) passed over by him who measured (the worlds) with His foot.