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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.