Proverbs 21:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Proverbs 21:5 —

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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.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. …
Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Topics

Caution Consistency Counsel Diligence Economics Expediency Frugality Haste

Commentary

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

(vv. 5)

Here is, 1. The way to be rich. If we would live plentifully and comfortably in the world, we must be diligent in our business, and not shrink from the toil and trouble of it, but prosecute it closely, improving all advantages and opportunities for it, and doing what we do with all our might; yet we must not be hasty in it, nor hurry ourselves and others with it, but keep doing fair and softly, wh…

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

(vv. 5)

5. The contrast is between steady industry and rashness (compare Pr 19:2).