Proverbs 20:4
Slackers don't sow when they should, so when harvest comes they don't have anything.
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3Avoiding conflict is the proper thing to do, but stupid people are quick to argue.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:4Lazy hands make you poor, but hard-working hands make you rich.
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Proverbs 21:25Slackers die hungry because they refuse to work.
Proverbs 26:13Lazy people are the ones who say, “There's a lion on the road—a lion running around the streets!”
Matthew 25:3The foolish girls took their lamps but didn't take any oil with them,
2 Peter 1:5For this same reason, do everything you can! Add to your trust in God, goodness; add to goodness, knowledge;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:4
3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. This is designed to rectify men's mistakes concerning strife. 1. Men think it is their wisdom to engage in quarrels; whereas it is the greatest folly that can be. He thinks himself a wise man that is quick in resenting affronts, that stands upon every nicety of honour and right, and will not abate an ace of either, that prescribes, and imposes, and gives law, to every body; but he that thus meddles is a fool, and creates a great… Read the whole commentary →