Proverbs 18:9
Laziness and destruction are brothers.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
8Listening to gossip is like gulping down bites of your favorite food—they go deep down inside you.
10The Lord is a protective tower that good people can run to and be safe.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am like a brother to the jackals, a companion to owls.
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Proverbs 23:21For people who get drunk and overeat lose all they've got, and they spend so much time dozing that all they have left to wear is rags.
Proverbs 24:33You may say, “Please, just a little more sleep, a little longer snooze, a little more folding of the arms to rest”—
Proverbs 28:24A man who robs his father and mother, and says, “It's not a crime,” is one step away from becoming a murderer.
Luke 15:13A few days later the younger son packed up what he had and left for a distant country. Here he wasted all his money living a reckless life.
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 →