Proverbs 10:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ A son who gathers in summer is prudent, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: But he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; But he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Common English Bible

⁵ A wise son harvests in the summer; a disgraceful son sleeps right through the harvest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ He who gathers the harvest is a wise son. But he who snores in warm weather is a son of confusion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ He that gathered in the harvest is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 10:5 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

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

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 17:2

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

Proverbs 19:26

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Proverbs 27:25

When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,

Proverbs 30:25

the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Proverbs 6:8

she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.