Proverbs 21:25 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ The desire of the slothful killeth him; For his hands refuse to labour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The desires of the lazy will kill them, because their hands refuse to do anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Desires kill the lazy, for his hands are not willing to work at all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.

Proverbs 21:25 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27

A slothful man will not catch his prey, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:16

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed?

Joshua 7:3

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few.”