Proverbs 18:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Proverbs 18:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; …
Proverbs 23:20-21
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: …
Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Topics

Diligence Idleness Industry Labor Laziness Rising Self-Indulgence Slothfulness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9)

Note, 1. Prodigality is very bad husbandry. Those are not only justly branded as fools among men, but will give an uncomfortable account to God of the talents they are entrusted with, who are wasters of their estates, who live above what they have, spend and give more than they can afford, and so, in effect, throw away what they have, and suffer it to run to waste. 2. Idleness is no better. He tha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. One by failing to get, the other by wasting wealth, grows poor. waster--literally, “master of washing,” a prodigal.