Proverbs 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But of every one that is hasty only to want.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

Common English Bible

⁵ The plans of the diligent end up in profit, but those who hurry end up with loss.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need.

Proverbs 21:5 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Ephesians 4:28

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.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Proverbs 20:21

An estate quickly acquired in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.