Proverbs 18:9
People who are lazy while they work are just as bad as [IDM] those who destroy things.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
Cross References
Job 30:29My wailing sounds as sad as [MET] the cries of jackals/foxes and ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15Those who are lazy sleep soundly, but if they are lazy, they will be hungry because of not earning money to buy food.
Proverbs 23:21because drunkards and gluttons will become poor; and if all that you do is eat and sleep, you will soon ◄be wearing rags/not have any money to buy clothes►.
Proverbs 24:33If you spend a lot of time sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
Proverbs 28:24Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother and says “That is not sinful” is as bad as a bandit.
Luke 15:13A few days later, the younger son sold his share. He gathered his money and other things together and went to a country far away. There he spent all his money foolishly in reckless/wild living.
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 →