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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4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
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25 The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
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23 The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
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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:
11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
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13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
14 A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
15 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
16 The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
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19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
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18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
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33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
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24 The 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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3 The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
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.
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4 The 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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13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
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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.
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12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
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2 It 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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19 By 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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30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
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26 Like 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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6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
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14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
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2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
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29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
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27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
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11 Wealth 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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26 The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
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5 The 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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19 And 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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11 He 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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4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
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23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
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16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
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5 Thorns 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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25 The 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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16 The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.