Idleness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Idleness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 32 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of…
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He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
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As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
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Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
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The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
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The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
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The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
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In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
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The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
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Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
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There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
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The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
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for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered well. I…
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The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!” As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.…
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The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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Isaiah 56:10 OT
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.