Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his workis brother to him who is a master of destruction.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:they go down into a person's innermost parts.
10The name of the Lord is a strong tower:the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Cross References
Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals,and a companion to ostriches.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 23:21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Proverbs 24:33a little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the hands to sleep;
Proverbs 28:24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong."He is a partner with a destroyer.
Luke 15:13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous 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 →