Proverbs 19:15
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
BSB
ASV
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
KJV
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Into a deep sleep - תרדמה tardemah, the same into which Adam was thrown, before Eve was taken from his side. Sloth renders a man utterly unconscious of all his interests. Though he has frequently felt hunger, yet he is regardless that his continual slothfulness must necessarily plunge him into more sufferings.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Thessalonians 3:10For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
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Proverbs 20:13Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
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And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.