He never even seemed to come to his work on purpose, but would slouch in as if by mere accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or went away at night, he would slouch out, like Cain or the Wandering Jew, as if he had no idea where he was going and no intention of ever coming back. He lodged at a sluice-keeper’s out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back. On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful, half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking.

– Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, Chapter 15. Orlick works at a journeyman for Joe and is described here by Pip as an unpleasant, lazy and slouching character. Similes compare him to Cain and the Wandering jew, foreshadowing his later violence towards Mrs. Joe and his attempt to kill Pip. In the Bible we learn that Adam’s son killed his brother out of envy. The Wandering Jew was supposed to be one of the Jews who taunted Jesus on the way to crucifixion and was cursed to walk the earth until the second coming of Christ.