Proverbs 6:11

The Passion Translation

By making excuses you’ll learn what it means to go without. Poverty will pounce on you like a bandit and move in as your roommate for life.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

Slackers will know what it means to be poor, while the hard worker becomes wealthy.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker wants it all and ends up with nothing, but the hard worker ends up with all that he longed for.

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead—be lazy and passive. But you’ll go hungry if you live that way.

Proverbs 20:13

If you spend all your time sleeping, you’ll grow poor. So wake up, sleepyhead! Don’t sleep on the job. And then there will be plenty of food on your table.

Proverbs 20:4

If you’re too lazy to plant seed, it’s too bad when you have no harvest on which to feed.

Proverbs 23:21

because drunkards and gluttons sleep their lives away and end up broke!

Proverbs 24:33

Professional work habits prevent poverty from becoming your permanent business partner. And: If you put off until tomorrow the work you could do today, tomorrow never seems to come.