Proverbs 21:5

Proverbs chapter 21 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hastyhastethonly to want.

King James Version · 1611

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

American Standard Version · 1901

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hastyhastethonly to want.

v.4A high look, and a proud heart, Eventhe lamp of the wicked, is sin.

v.5This passage

v.6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 20:21
An inheritancemay be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, And look well to thy herds:
Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 28:22
He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.