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Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent, tend only to abundance, but, of every one that is urgent, only to want.
Proverbs 21:5 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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Proverbs 21:5 in other translations
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
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In context
2 Every way of a man, may be right in his own eyes, but, he that testeth hearts, is Yahweh.
3 To do righteousness and justice, is more choice to Yahweh than sacrifice.
4 Loftiness of eyes, and ambition of heart—the lamp of the lawless, are sin.
5 The plans of the diligent, tend only to abundance, but, of every one that is urgent, only to want.
6 The gaining of treasures with a tongue of falsehood, is a vapour driven away, [they who seek them] seek death,
7 The violence of the lawless, shall drag them away,—because they have refused to do justice.
8 Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but, as for the pure, straight is his dealing.
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