| Book of Proverbs |
| Chapter 6 |
- 6:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
 [ Multi-Translation ] - Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
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- 6:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
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- 6:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
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- 6:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
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- 6:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest -
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- 6:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. F11
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| Chapter 10 |
- 10:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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- 10:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
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- 10:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.
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| Chapter 12 |
- 12:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment.
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- 12:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
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- 12:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The lazy man does not roast F23 his game, but the diligent man prizes his possessions.
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| Chapter 13 |
- 13:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
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- 13:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
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| Chapter 14 |
- 14:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
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| Chapter 15 |
- 15:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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| Chapter 18 |
- 18:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
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| Chapter 19 |
- 19:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
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- 19:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
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| Chapter 20 |
- 20:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.
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- 20:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
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| Chapter 21 |
- 21:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
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- 21:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
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| Chapter 24 |
- 24:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
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- 24:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
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- 24:32 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
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- 24:33 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest -
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- 24:34 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. F46
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| Chapter 26 |
- 26:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!"
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- 26:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
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- 26:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
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- 26:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
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| Chapter 28 |
- 28:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
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FOOTNOTES:
F11 Or like a vagrant / and scarcity like a beggar
F23 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
F46 Or like a vagrant / and scarcity like a beggar
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