Ecclesiastes 10:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁸ By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Through indolence the rafters [of state affairs] decay and the roof sinks in, and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Through laziness, the roof sags; through idle hands, the house leaks.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ By laziness, a framework shall be brought down, and by the weakness of hands, a house shall collapse through.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Hebrews 6:11

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,