Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the industrious al- ways bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4The sluggard willeth and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:2Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.
Proverbs 27:23Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks :
Proverbs 29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.
1 Thessalonians 4:11And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.
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 →