11/4/2009

Hard Work
Proverbs 6:6-11

What lessons on work does the ant give us?

Proverbs 10:4-5

Is it a promise that hard work will prosper you? Why/Why not?

Proverbs 12:11+24

What is the warning in v11?

What is the promise in v24?

Proverbs 12:27

What is the quality-of-life that hard work adds?

Proverbs 13:4

What is the difference between desire and possession?

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Proverbs 14:23

“Mere talk”… what is the value of planning?

Proverbs 19:15+24

Is it wrong to sleep? To sleep in?

Proverbs 21:25
What is “the desire of the lazy man”?

Proverbs 22:13

This is the funniest verse in the Bible! Why does the lazy man say this?

Proverbs 24:30-34

How do our lives get “covered with weeds”?

Proverbs 26:13-16

A recollection of various proverbs. How does consolidating them add

value to our conversation?

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Found-in-Translation

Proverbs 6:6-11 (NIV)

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 10:4-5 (NASB)

Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,

But the hand of the diligent makes rich.
He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely,
But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.

Proverbs 12:11+24 (The Message)

The one who stays on the job has food on the table;
the witless chase whims and fancies.
The diligent find freedom in their work;
the lazy are oppressed by work.

Proverbs 12:27 (New Living Translation)

Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch,

but the diligent make use of everything they find.

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Proverbs 13:4 (King James Version)

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the
diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 14:23 (English Standard Version)

In all toil there is profit,

but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Proverbs 15:19 (Contemporary English Version)

Being lazy is like walking

in a thorn patch,
but everyone who does right
walks on a smooth road.

Proverbs 19:15+24 (New Century Version)

Lazy people sleep a lot,

and idle people will go hungry.

Though the lazy person puts his hand in the dish,

he won't lift the food to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4+13 (21st Century King James Version)

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;

therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing.

Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty;

open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 21:25 (New King James Version)

The desire of the lazy man kills him,

For his hands refuse to labor.

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Proverbs 22:13 (New King James Version)

The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside!

I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 24:30-34 (New International Version)

I went past the field of the sluggard,

past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 26:13-16 (The Message)

Loafers say, "It's dangerous out there!

Tigers are prowling the streets!"
and then pull the covers back over their heads.
Just as a door turns on its hinges,
so a lazybones turns back over in bed.
A shiftless sluggard puts his fork in the pie,
but is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.
Dreamers fantasize their self-importance;
they think they are smarter
than a whole college faculty.

Proverbs 28:19 (English Standard Version)

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,

but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

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