(NIV)
But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”
But the
number of
bricks that
they made in the
past you shall
impose on them, you shall by
no means
reduce it, for they are
idle. Therefore
they cry, ‘Let us
go and
offer sacrifice to
our God.’
(NIV)
Pharaoh said, ‘Lazy, that’s what you are – lazy! That is why you keep saying, “Let us go and sacrifice to the
Lord.”
But he
said, “You are
idle,
you are
idle; that is why
you say, ‘Let us
go and
sacrifice to the
Lord.’
(NIV)
Lazy hands make for poverty,
but diligent hands bring wealth.
A slack hand causes poverty,
but the
hand of the
diligent makes
rich.
(NIV)
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Whoever is
slothful will
not roast his
game,
but the
diligent man will get
precious wealth.
(NIV)
A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
The
sluggard buries his
hand in the
dish;
it wears him
out to bring it
back to
his mouth.
(NIV)
‘His master replied, “You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?
(ESV)
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
(NIV)
One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: ‘Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.’
One of the
Cretans, a
prophet of
their own,
said, “
Cretans are
always liars,
evil beasts,
lazy gluttons.”
(NIV)
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
so that you may
not be sluggish,
but imitators of those who
through faith and patience inherit the
promises.
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