Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:2Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.
Proverbs 27:23Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
Proverbs 29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
1 Thessalonians 4:11and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged 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 →