Proverbs 21:25 Cross References - LEB

²⁵ The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.*

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. ⁷ It has no chief, officer, or ruler. ⁸ In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance. ⁹ How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest— ¹¹ like a _⌊robber_⌋* shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor.

²⁷ The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man.

⁴ The soul* of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.

¹⁹ The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,* but the path of the upright is a highway.

²⁴ A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.

⁴ The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

³⁰ I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking _⌊sense_⌋;* ³¹ and behold, it was overgrown—all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and _⌊its stone wall_⌋* was broken down. ³² Then I myself saw and my heart* considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, ³⁴ and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!"

¹⁶ A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.

²⁶ But his master answered and* said to him, 'Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter seed.*