Proverbs 6:6

World English Bible (2000)

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:26 : 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
  • Matt 25:26 : 26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • Matt 6:26 : 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
  • Prov 30:25 : 25 the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.
  • Job 12:7-8 : 7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
  • Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" 14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 19:24 : 24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:7-11
    5 verses
    81%

    7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

    8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

    9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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

    11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:3-5
    3 verses
    77%

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

    5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  • Prov 30:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24"There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

    25the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

  • Prov 19:15
    73%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 26:13-16
    4 verses
    72%

    13The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

    14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

    15The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

    16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

  • Prov 12:27
    72%

    27The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Prov 10:26
    70%

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

  • Prov 18:9
    70%

    9One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

  • Prov 9:6
    70%

    6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

  • Prov 22:13
    70%

    13The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

  • Prov 13:4
    70%

    4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

  • Prov 5:6
    70%

    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Prov 12:24
    70%

    24The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

  • Prov 21:25
    69%

    25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Prov 24:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

    33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • Prov 19:24
    69%

    24The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Eccl 10:18
    69%

    18By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Heb 6:12
    69%

    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • Prov 6:22
    68%

    22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

  • Prov 22:6
    68%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

    5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 4:26
    68%

    26Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

  • Hag 1:7
    67%

    7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    67%

    24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Matt 6:19
    67%

    19"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

  • Prov 23:4
    67%

    4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

  • Eccl 6:8
    66%

    8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • Prov 3:6
    66%

    6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

  • Prov 21:5
    66%

    5The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

  • Prov 7:25
    66%

    25Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 4:15
    66%

    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.