Proverbs 26:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The sluggard has plunged his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:24 : 24 The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

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  • Prov 19:24
    94%

    24The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

  • Prov 26:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

    14Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

  • Prov 21:25-26
    2 verses
    80%

    25What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.

    26All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 19:15
    80%

    15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

  • Prov 26:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16The sluggard is wiser in his own opinion than seven people who respond with good sense.

    17Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

  • Prov 12:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people proclaim folly.

    24The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labor.

  • Prov 13:4
    76%

    4The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

    11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 12:27
    75%

    27The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.

  • Prov 18:9
    75%

    9The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

  • Prov 15:19
    75%

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

  • Eccl 4:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

    6Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.

  • Prov 10:26
    74%

    26Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

  • Prov 20:4
    74%

    4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.

  • Eccl 10:18
    74%

    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 24:33
    73%

    33“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

    5The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.

  • Prov 22:13
    73%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.

  • Prov 16:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26A laborer’s appetite has labored for him, for his hunger has pressed him to work.

    27A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

  • Prov 30:32
    71%

    32If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

  • Prov 6:6
    70%

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

  • Prov 26:9
    70%

    9Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.

  • Prov 23:21
    70%

    21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

  • Matt 25:26
    69%

    26But his master answered,‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

  • Prov 16:30
    69%

    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Prov 26:27
    69%

    27The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone– it will come back on him.

  • Prov 27:16
    68%

    16Whoever contains her has contained the wind or can grasp oil with his right hand.

  • Ps 36:3
    68%

    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Job 20:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

    13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

  • Ps 129:7
    68%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Prov 10:18
    68%

    18The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.

  • Job 15:23
    68%

    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.

  • Prov 29:24
    67%

    24Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.

  • Job 15:27
    67%

    27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

  • Prov 21:5
    67%

    5The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

  • Job 31:27
    67%

    27so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,