Proverbs 21:5 Cross References - MLV

⁵ The thoughts of a diligent man lead only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

⁴ He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

²¹ An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning will not be praised in the end.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and look well to your herds. ²⁴ Because riches are not everlasting. And does the crown endure to all generations?
²⁵ The hay is carried and the tender grass shows itself and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in. ²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing and the goats are the cost of the field. ²⁷ And then will be goats' milk enough for your food; for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.

²² He who has an evil eye hastens after riches and does not know that want will come upon him.

²⁸ Let the one who steals, steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working at what is the good thing with his hands, in order that he may have something to give to the one who has need.

¹¹ and that you make it your aim to be living quiet lives and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands (just-as we commanded you), ¹² in order that you may walk decently toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.