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Proverbs 18:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

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I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter?

Do not lag in zeal; be ardent in spirit; serve the Lord.

so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.