Proverbs 18:9
He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
10The name of Jehovah is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth 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 clotheth with rags.
Proverbs 24:33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Luke 15:13And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.
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 →