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Proverbs 18

Prov. 18:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He also that is slothful
raphah (Hebrew #7503)
to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See 7495.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: a primitive root
in his work
mla'kah (Hebrew #4399)
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
KJV usage: business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Pronounce: mel-aw-kaw'
Origin: from the same as 4397
is brother
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
to him that is a great
ba`al (Hebrew #1167)
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV usage: + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, + have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that are given to it, great, + hairy, he that hath it, have, + horseman, husband, lord, man, + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.
Pronounce: bah'-al
Origin: from 1166
waster
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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that is slothful.
Prov. 10:4• 4He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. (Prov. 10:4)
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Prov. 23:20‑21• 20Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags. (Prov. 23:20‑21)
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Prov. 24:30‑34• 30I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;
 31and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
 32Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:
 33--A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
 34So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man. (Prov. 24:30‑34)
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Matt. 25:26• 26And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered; (Matt. 25:26)
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Rom. 12:11• 11as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord. (Rom. 12:11)
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Heb. 6:12• 12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises. (Heb. 6:12)
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Prov. 28:24• 24Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. (Prov. 28:24)
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Job 30:29• 29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches. (Job 30:29)
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Luke 15:13‑14• 13And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.
 14But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want. (Luke 15:13‑14)
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Luke 16:1‑2• 1And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.
 2And having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward. (Luke 16:1‑2)
• The latter wastes his goods, the former wastes his time. Both come to poverty, as did the prodigal of Luke 15; and the disobedient son of Matthew 21:30 was clearly on the same road. (“Proverbs Eighteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.