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Proverbs 18:9

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, *It's not wrong.* He is a partner with a destroyer.

*But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.