Proverbs 20:4 Cross References - ECB

⁴ The sloth plows not in winter; he asks in harvest and has naught.

¹⁰ A little sleep; a little drowsiness; a little clasping of the hands to lie down: ¹¹ thus comes your poverty - as one who walks and your lack - as a man with buckler.

⁴ He who works a deceitful palm impoverishes; and the hand of the decisive enriches.

⁴ The soul of the sloth desires and has naught; and the soul of the decisive fattens.

¹⁵ Sloth falls into a deep sleep; and a deceitful soul famishs.

²⁴ The sloth hides his hand in his bosom and returns it not to his mouth.

³⁴ and so be your poverty as one who travels; and your lack as a man with buckler.

¹³ The sloth says, A roaring lion in the way - a lion in the broadways. ¹⁴ As the door turns on its hinge, thus the sloth on his bed. ¹⁵ The sloth hides his hand in his bosom; it wearies him to return it to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sloth is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who return taste.

³ the foolish take their lamps, and take no olive oil with them: ⁴ but the thoughtful take olive oil in their vessels with their lamps: ⁵ but the bridegroom takes his time and they all slumber and sleep: ⁶ and at midnight there becomes a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go meet him! ⁷ Then all those virgins rise and adorn their lamps: ⁸ and the foolish say to the thoughtful, Give us of your olive oil, for our lamps are quenched. ⁹ And the thoughtful answer, wording, Not so; lest ever there is not sufficient for us and you: but go rather to them who sell and market for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they go to market, the bridegroom comes; and the prepared enter with him to the marriage: and they shut the portal.

²⁴ He who took the one talent weight comes and says, Adoni, I know you, that you are a hard human, harvesting where you spore not, and gathering together where you scatter not: ²⁵ and being awestricken, I went and secreted your talent weight in the soil: behold, you have your own. ²⁶ His adoni answers him, saying, You evil and slothful servant, you know I harvest where I spore not, and gather together where I scatter not: ²⁷ so you needed to put my silver to the exchangers, and then at my coming I had received my own with interest. ²⁸ So take the talent weight from him, and give to him who has ten talent weights.

⁵ And beside this, in bringing you all diligence, supply in your trust, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, endurance; and in endurance, reverence; ⁷ and in reverence, befriending brothers; and in befriending brothers, love. ⁸ For these being in you, and superabounding, they seat you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Adonay Yah Shua Messiah. ⁹ Indeed he to whom these are not present is blind and blinks forgeting the purifying from his sins of long ago. ¹⁰ So the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and selection steadfast: for doing these, you never ever no way stumble: ¹¹ for thus you are richly supplied with an entrance into the eternal sovereigndom of our Adonay and Saviour Yah Shua Messiah.