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Proverbs 10:5

Good News Translation

A sensible person gathers the crops when they are ready; it is a disgrace to sleep through the time of harvest.

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Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.

Good people will receive blessings. The words of the wicked hide a violent nature.

A good wife is her husband's pride and joy; but a wife who brings shame on her husband is like a cancer in his bones.

A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.

Only a shameful, disgraceful person would mistreat his father or turn his mother away from his home.

You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing.

Ants: they are weak, but they store up their food in the summer.

Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.