Proverbs 21:25 Cross References - LXX2012

²⁵ Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.

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. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom. ⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short [time], and you fold your arms over your breast a little. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

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

²⁷ A deceitful man shall catch no game; but a blameless man is a precious possession.

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

¹⁹ The ways of sluggards are strewn with thorns; but those of the diligent are made smooth.

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 The sluggard makes excuses, and says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.

³⁰ A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard. ³¹ If you 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 you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets.

¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.