Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:2Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.
Proverbs 27:23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Proverbs 29:20See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
1 Thessalonians 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:5
4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that has a high look and a proud heart, that carries himself insolently and scornfully towards both God and man, and that is always ploughing and plotting, designing and devising some mischief or other, is indeed a wicked man. The light of the wicked is sin. Sin is the pride, the ambition, the glory and joy, and the business of wicked men. 2. The miseries of wicked man. His… Read the whole commentary →