Proverbs 10:4 Cross References - Brenton

⁴ Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. ^(10:4A) A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. ^(6:8A) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; ^(6:8B) whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: ^(6:8C) though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom. ⁹ How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: ^(6:11A) but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

²⁴ There are some who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are some also who gather, yet have less.

²⁴ The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

¹⁵ Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.

²⁴ He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even bring them up to his mouth.

⁴ A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.

¹³ Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread.

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³⁰ A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard. ³¹ If thou let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down. ³² Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction. ³³ The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast. ³⁴ But if thou do this, thy poverty will come speedily; and thy want like a swift courier.

¹⁸ By slothful neglect a building will be brought low: and by idleness of the hands the house will fall to pieces.