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

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

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

*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.

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

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

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.