Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.
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 King James verseion
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.
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.
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Machashabah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
4 Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked is sin. 5 The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want. 6 The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 10:4
Poor is he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 28:22
Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Proverbs 14:29
Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,
Ephesians 4:28
whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,