Proverbs 18:9
Who so is slouthfull in his labour, is the brother of hym that is a waster.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
8The wordes of a slaunderer are very woundes, and go through vnto the innermost partes of the body.
10The name of the Lorde is a strong castell, the righteous runneth vnto it and is in safegarde.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slouthfulnesse bryngeth sleepe, and a soule accustomed with craft, shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 23:21For suche as be drunkardes and riotours shall come to pouertie: and he that is geuen to muche sleepe, shall go with a ragged coate.
Proverbs 24:33Yea sleepe on styll [I say] a litle, slumber a litle, folde thy handes together yet a litle:
Proverbs 28:24Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayth it is no sinne: the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Luke 15:13And not long after, when the younger sonne had gathered all that he had together, he toke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there wasted his goodes with riotous lyuyng.
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 →