Proverbs 6:6 Cross References - LEB

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

⁷ "But* ask* the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you; ⁸ or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.

¹⁷ for "in vain* is the net scattered, in the sight of any _⌊winged bird_⌋."*

⁹ How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

²⁶ Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus is the lazy to one who employs* him.

⁴ The soul* of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.

¹⁹ The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,* but the path of the upright is a highway.

⁹ Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master* of destruction.

¹⁵ Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person* of idleness will suffer hunger.

²⁴ A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.

⁴ The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.

²⁵ The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.*

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

³⁰ I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking _⌊sense_⌋;* ³¹ and behold, it was overgrown—all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and _⌊its stone wall_⌋* was broken down. ³² Then I myself saw and my heart* considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, ³⁴ and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!" ¹⁴ The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed. ¹⁵ A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is too tired to return it to his mouth. ¹⁶ A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.

²⁵ The ants are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

³ An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

²⁶ Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are?

²⁶ But his master answered and* said to him, 'Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter seed.*

¹¹ not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

¹² in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.