Proverbs 18:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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

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.