Proverbs 21:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is slow to anger is of great understanding: But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Proverbs 29:20

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.