Proverbs 20:4
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
5Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:4Poor [is] he who is working — a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 19:15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
Proverbs 21:25The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.
Proverbs 26:13The slothful hath said, 'A lion [is] in the way, A lion [is] in the broad places.'
Matthew 25:3they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;
2 Peter 1:5And this same also — all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:4
3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. This is designed to rectify men's mistakes concerning strife. 1. Men think it is their wisdom to engage in quarrels; whereas it is the greatest folly that can be. He thinks himself a wise man that is quick in resenting affronts, that stands upon every nicety of honour and right, and will not abate an ace of either, that prescribes, and imposes, and gives law, to every body; but he that thus meddles is a fool, and creates a great… Read the whole commentary →