Proverbs 18:9
A man who helps not himself by his labor is brother of him that ruins himself.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
8Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15+ 19:15 Or, keeps down. Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
Proverbs 23:21for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
Proverbs 24:33The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.
Proverbs 28:24+ 28:24 Mark 7:11. He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.
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 →