Proverbs 10:26 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who employ and send him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are lazy people to those who authorize them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is a lazy one to those who sent him.

Proverbs 10:26 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 25:13

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest are faithful messengers to those who send them; they refresh the spirit of their masters.

Proverbs 25:20

Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood, sorrow gnaws at the human heart.

Proverbs 26:6

It is like cutting off one's foot and drinking down violence, to send a message by a fool.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

Isaiah 65:5

who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Matthew 25:26

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?

Romans 12:11

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

Hebrews 6:12

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