Proverbs 18:9
Even one that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is set up on high.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 24:33'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —
Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith: 'It is no transgression', the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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 →