Proverbs 12:24
A diligent hand shall bear rule; but the idle shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 10:4
An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich.
Proverbs 12:27
A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.
Proverbs 13:4
The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.
Proverbs 21:25-26
The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour.
Genesis 49:15
and saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
1 Kings 9:21
the children of the said nations that were left in the land, because the children of Israel were not able to destroy them, did Solomon make tributaries unto this day.
1 Kings 11:28
And this fellow Jeroboam was an active man. And when Solomon saw the young man, that he wrought so lustily in the work, he made him ruler over all the charges of the house of Joseph.
1 Kings 12:20
And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him king over Israel: and no man followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
Proverbs 17:2
A discreet servant shall have more rule than the sons that have no wisdom, and shall have like heritage with the brethren.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."
Proverbs 22:29
Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man.
Proverbs 26:13-16
The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets."