Proverbs 21:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

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 soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 14:29

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

Proverbs 19:2

It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.