Proverbs 10:4
Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
In Context
3The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.
5A wise son is saved from heat: but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
Proverbs 11:24There are some who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are some also who gather, yet have less. + 11:24 Gr. diminished.
Proverbs 12:27A deceitful man shall catch no game; but a + 12:27 Gr. pure. blameless man is a precious possession.
Proverbs 19:15+ 19:15 Or, keeps down. Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
Proverbs 20:4A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:3-4
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. These two verses speak to the same purport, and the latter may be the reason of the former. 1. That wealth which men get unjustly will do them no good, because God will blast it: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, v. 2 . The treasures of wicked people, much more the treasure which they have made themselves masters of… Read the whole commentary →