Proverbs 21:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

More versions

King 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.

Proverbs 21:5 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is slow to anger is of great understanding: But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

Proverbs 29:20

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.