15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.


In Context

12 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Proverbs 19:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.