Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
8The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.
10The name of LORD is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it, and is safe.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Proverbs 24:33[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Proverbs 28:24He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Luke 15:13And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, journeyed into a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth living recklessly.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:9
8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Tale-bearers are those who secretly carry stories from house to house, which perhaps have some truth in them, but are secrets not fit to be told, or are basely misrepresented, and false colours put upon them, and are all told with design to blast men's reputation, to break their friendship, to make mischief between relations and neighbours, and set them at variance. Now the words of such are here said to be, 1. Like… Read the whole commentary →