Proverbs 18:9 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁹ One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

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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.

Proverbs 18:9 Krydshenvisninger

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

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 28:24

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

Matthew 25:26

But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?

Romans 12:11

Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

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