Proverbs 18:9 - English Standard Version 2016

⁹ Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He also that is slothful in his work Is brother to him that is a great waster.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He who is loose and slack in his work is brother to him who is a destroyer and he who does not use his endeavors to heal himself is brother to him who commits suicide.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Common English Bible

⁹ Those who are lazy in their work are brothers to thugs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever is dissolute and slack in his work is the brother of him who wastes his own works.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.

Proverbs 18:9 Cross References

Job 30:29

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Romans 12:11

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.