Proverbs 18:9
He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he [is] to a destroyer.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
In Context
10A tower of strength [is] the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.
Cross References
Job 30:29A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Proverbs 19:15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
Proverbs 23:21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Proverbs 24:33A little sleep — a little slumber — A little folding of the hands to lie down.
Proverbs 28:24Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
Luke 15:13'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;
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 →