Proverbs 19:15
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 20:13 : 13 Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
- Prov 23:21 : 21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
- Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
- 2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.
- Prov 24:33 : 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
- Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
- Rom 13:11-12 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
- Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
- Prov 10:4-5 : 4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth. 5 He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
- Prov 19:24 : 24 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.
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4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
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25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
26All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
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23The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
24The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.
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9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
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13The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
14A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
15The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
16The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
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19Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
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18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
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33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
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24The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
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3The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
5He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
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4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
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13The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
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21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
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12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
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2It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
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19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
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30I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
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26Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.
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6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
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14House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
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2Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
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27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
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11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
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26The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
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5The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
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19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
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11He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
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4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
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23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
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16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
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5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
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25The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
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16The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.