Proverbs 21:5
The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need.
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4To lift up the eyes is to enlarge the heart. The lamp of the impious is sin.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:2Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good. And whoever hurries with his feet will stumble.
Proverbs 27:23Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks,
Proverbs 29:20Have you seen a man rushing to speak? Foolishness has more hope than his correction.
1 Thessalonians 4:11to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed 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 →