Proverbs 18:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ Also, he who is slack in his work Is a brother of a master destroyer.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He also that is slothful in his work Is brother to him that is a great waster.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He who is loose and slack in his work is brother to him who is a destroyer and he who does not use his endeavors to heal himself is brother to him who commits suicide.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Common English Bible

⁹ Those who are lazy in their work are brothers to thugs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever is dissolute and slack in his work is the brother of him who wastes his own works.

Proverbs 18:9 Cross References

Job 30:29

I became a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Proverbs 10:4

Poor is he who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the hard worker makes rich.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a slanderer are like delicacies, And they go down into the inner parts of the heart.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness makes one fall into a deep sleep, And an idle being suffers hunger.

Proverbs 28:24

He who robs his father or his mother, And says, “It is no transgression,” He is a companion to a destroyer.

Matthew 25:26

“And his master answering, said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Romans 12:11

not idle in duty, ardent in spirit, serving the Master;

Hebrews 6:12

in order that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through belief and patience inherit the promises.