Proverbs 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to want. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But of every one that is hasty only to want. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The thoughts of the [steadily] diligent tend only to plenteousness, but everyone who is impatient and hasty hastens only to want. American Standard Version (1901) The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want. Common English Bible The plans of the diligent end up in profit, but those who hurry end up with loss. Catholic Public Domain Version The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want. |
The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
An estate quickly acquired in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.