Jerome

"Through slothfulness the ceiling sags, and through idleness of the hands the house leaks." Our house, which is held up by the condition of mankind, even that abode that we have in heaven, sags if we are lazy and slow to do good work. And every ceiling, which is supposed to hold the roof up high, falls to the ground and crushes its inhabitants. And when the help of hands and virtues has eventually gone numb a great storm of all tempests and rain clouds will fall down upon us from above. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes ↗

John Cassian

But we must not imagine that anyone slips and comes to grief by a sudden fall, but that he falls by a hopeless collapse either from being deceived by beginning his training badly, or from the good qualities of his soul failing through a long course of carelessness of mind, and so his faults gaining ground upon him little by little. …

Conference 6:17 ↗

Bonaventure

In slothfulness shall be brought low, etc. Here, secondly, it is shown that the lax prelate himself is unworthy on account of the idleness of sloth, which is followed by the destruction of the house that was built. On account of which he says: In slothfulness the roofing shall be brought low. The roofing is called the joining of timbers for covering a house. This is brought low in slothfulness, because, while its repair is neglected, it collapses; so also is the spiritual building destroyed through sloth. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 10 ↗