THEOSISProverbs 18:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.
גַּ֭ם מִתְרַפֶּ֣ה בִמְלַאכְתּ֑וֹ אָ֥ח ה֝֗וּא לְבַ֣עַל מַשְׁחִֽית׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:4The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.
- Heb 6:12That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.
- Prov 23:20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
- Prov 23:21Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
- Prov 24:30I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
- Prov 24:34And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
- Matt 25:26And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I have not strewed.
- Rom 12:11In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.