Proverbs 19:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 19:15 Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets.

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 24:33

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 6:11

So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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.

Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.