Proverbs 10:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Lazy hands will make you poor; hard-working hands will make you rich.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:5

Careful planning leads to profit. Acting too quickly leads to poverty.

Proverbs 20:4

Some people are too lazy to plant seeds. So at harvest time, they look for food and find nothing.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on sleep, and an appetite for rest brings on hunger.

Proverbs 13:4

Lazy people always want things but never get them. Those who work hard get plenty.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my dear brothers and sisters, stand strong. Don’t let anything change you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord. You know that your work in the Lord is never wasted.

Proverbs 20:13

If you love to sleep, you will become poor. Use your time working and you will have plenty to eat.

Proverbs 19:24

Some people are too lazy to take care of themselves. They will not even lift the food from their plate to their mouth.

Proverbs 12:24

Those who work hard will be put in charge of others, but lazy people will have to work like slaves.

Proverbs 11:24

Some people give freely and gain more; others refuse to give and end up with less.

John 6:27

But earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good and gives you eternal life. The Son of Man will give you that food. He is the only one qualified by God the Father to give it to you.”

Ecclesiastes 10:18

If someone is too lazy to work, their house will begin to leak, and the roof will fall in.

Proverbs 10:5

A son who works hard while it is harvest time will be successful, but one who sleeps through the harvest is worthless.

Proverbs 12:27

Lazy people don’t get what they want, but riches come to those who work hard.

Proverbs 18:9

Someone who does careless work is as bad as someone who destroys things.

Genesis 26:32

On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. The servants said, “We found water in that well.”