Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty [hasteth] only to want.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:2Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Proverbs 27:23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [And] look well to thy herds:
Proverbs 29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
1 Thessalonians 4:11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your 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 →