Revised Version 1895
Proverbs 21:5
5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.
Proverbs 21:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- New International Version (NIV)The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.
Context of Proverbs 21:5
3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 4An high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want. 6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death. 7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; because they refuse to do judgment.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:5 word by word
מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת חָ֭רוּץ אַךְ־לְמוֹתָ֑ר וְכָל־אָ֝֗ץ אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 21:5
- Proverbs 10:4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Proverbs 27:23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds:
- Ephesians 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
- Proverbs 14:29He that is slow to anger is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
- Proverbs 20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- Proverbs 28:22He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:5
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Here diligence is opposed, not to sloth but to haste. Undue hurry is as fatal to success as undue procrastination.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5Verse 5 The really diligent employ foresight as well as labour.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. The contrast is between steady industry and rashness (compare Pr 19:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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