Add parallel Print Page Options

A slack hand (A)causes poverty,
    (B)but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Read full chapter

Lazy hands make for poverty,(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.(B)

Read full chapter

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Read full chapter

(A)The sluggard does not plough in the autumn;
    (B)he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Read full chapter

Sluggards(A) do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.(B)

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

13 (A)Love not sleep, lest you (B)come to poverty;
    open your eyes, and you will have (C)plenty of bread.

Read full chapter

13 Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;(A)
    stay awake and you will have food to spare.

Read full chapter

13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Read full chapter

21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and (A)slumber will clothe them with rags.

Read full chapter

21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor,(A)
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Read full chapter

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Read full chapter