Proverbs 12:24

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Summary

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Hand

But

General references

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 26:14

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Bible References

Hand

An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich.

The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

A discreet servant shall have more rule than the sons that have no wisdom, and shall have like heritage with the brethren.

Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

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.

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.

But

A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.

Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour.

The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man.

The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets."

General references

The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour.

Like as the door turneth about upon the threshold, even so doth the slothful welter himself in his bed.

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.