Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.
New American Standard Bible
But everyone
King James Version
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Holman Bible
but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor.
International Standard Version
Plans of the persistent surely lead to productivity, but all who are hasty will surely become poor.
A Conservative Version
The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.
American Standard Version
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.
Amplified
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance and advantage,
But everyone who acts in haste comes surely to poverty.
Bible in Basic English
The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
Darby Translation
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
Julia Smith Translation
The purposes of the active only to abundance; and every one hastening only to want
King James 2000
The thoughts of the diligent lead only to plenty; but of everyone that is hasty, only to want.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The plans of the diligent only [lead] to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The devices of one that is diligent, bring plenteousness; but he that is unadvised, cometh to poverty.
NET Bible
The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
New Heart English Bible
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
The Emphasized Bible
The plans of the diligent, tend only to abundance, but, of every one that is urgent, only to want.
Webster
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
World English Bible
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Youngs Literal Translation
The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.
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Machashabah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
4 A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. 5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty. 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 10:4
He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.
Proverbs 28:22
He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing; but the soul of the hard worker shall be made fat.
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Know well the face of your flocks; set your heart on your herds.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,