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Proverbs 18:9

Modern King James Version

Also he who is slack in his work is brother to a great destroyer.

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I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no sin; he shall be a companion to a destroyer.

His lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful servant! You knew that I reaped where I did not sow, and gathered where I did not scatter,

As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.