Proverbs 12:24
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24 Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labor.(A)
Proverbs 12:27
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27 The lazy do not roast[a] any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 12:27 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Proverbs 21:25-26
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Proverbs 10:4
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Proverbs 17:2
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2 A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and will share the inheritance as one of the family.
Proverbs 13:4
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4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,(A)
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
Proverbs 22:29
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Saying 6
Proverbs 22:13
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13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!(A)
I’ll be killed in the public square!”
Proverbs 19:15
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15 Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and the shiftless go hungry.(A)
1 Kings 11:28
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28 Now Jeroboam was a man of standing,(A) and when Solomon saw how well(B) the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.
Genesis 49:15
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Proverbs 26:13-16
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13 A sluggard says,(A) “There’s a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!”(B)
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so a sluggard turns on his bed.(C)
15 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.(D)
16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven people who answer discreetly.
1 Kings 9:21
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21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(A) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[a](B)—to serve as slave labor,(C) as it is to this day.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
Proverbs 24:30-34
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30 I went past the field of a sluggard,(A)
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest(B)—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.(C)
1 Kings 12:20
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20 When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.(A)
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