Proverbs 19:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep; a slacker goes hungry.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.

Proverbs 19:15 Cross References

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

Proverbs 24:33

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 6:11

and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.

Proverbs 18:9

He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”