Verse List for PROV 10:4

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Idle hands lead to poverty, ⇔ ^ but those who work hard gain wealth.

OET-LV is_poor a _palm _of one _who_works slackness and_the_hand _of diligent_people it _gains _riches.

ULT A palm of idleness makes poverty, ⇔ but the hand of the diligent ones makes rich.

UST People who are lazy become poor, ⇔  but people who work hard become rich.

BSB & MSB Idle hands make one poor, ⇔  but diligent hands bring wealth.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, ⇔  but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

NET The one who is lazy becomes poor, ⇔ but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

LSV Poor [is] he who is working [with] a slothful hand,
And the hand of the diligent makes rich.

FBV Lazy hands make you poor, but hard-working hands make you rich.

T4T ⇔  Lazy people soon become poor; ⇔  it is those who work hard who become rich.

LEB • A slack hand causes poverty,
• but the hand of the diligent enriches.

BBE He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

Moff A slack hand makes men poor: ⇔  a busy hand makes men rich.

JPS He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

ASV He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; ⇔ But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

DRA The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds that fly away.

YLT Poor [is] he who is working — a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Drby He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

RV He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
(He becometh/becomes poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh/makes rich.)

SLT A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.

Wbstr He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

KJB-1769 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
(He becometh/becomes poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh/makes rich.)

KJB-1611 Hee becommeth poore that dealeth with a slacke hand: but the hand of the diligent, maketh rich.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps An idle hande maketh poore: but a quicke labouring hande maketh riche.
(An idle hand maketh/makes poor: but a quick labouring hand maketh/makes riche.)

Gnva A slouthfull hand maketh poore: but the hand of the diligent maketh riche.
(A slothful hand maketh/makes poor: but the hand of the diligent maketh/makes riche.)

Cvdl An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke laboringe hande maketh riche.
(An idle hand maketh/makes poor, but a quick laboringe hand maketh/makes riche.)

Wycl A slow hond hath wrouyt nedynesse; but the hond of stronge men makith redi richessis. Forsothe he that enforsith to gete `ony thing bi leesyngis, fedith the wyndis; sotheli the same man sueth briddis fleynge.
(A slow hand hath/has wrought/done neediness; but the hand of strong men maketh/makes ready riches. For_certain/Truly he that enforsith to gotten any thing by falsehoods, fedith the winds; truly the same man sueth birds fleeing.)

Luth Lässige Hand macht arm; aber der Fleißigen Hand macht reich.
(Lässige hand power arm; but the/of_the diligent_(ones) hand power rich/wealthy.)

ClVg Egestatem operata est manus remissa; manus autem fortium divitias parat. Qui nititur mendaciis, hic pascit ventos; idem autem ipse sequitur aves volantes.[fn]
(Egestatem works it_is hands released; hands however of_the_brave riches prepares. Who relies lies, this/here feeds with_the_winds; the_same however exactly_that/himself follows birds flying.)

UHB רָ֗אשׁ עֹשֶׂ֥ה כַף־רְמִיָּ֑ה וְ⁠יַ֖ד חָרוּצִ֣ים תַּעֲשִֽׁיר׃ ‡

BrLXX Πενία ἄνδρα ταπεινοῖ, χεῖρες δὲ ἀνδρείων πλουτίζουσιν·

BrTr Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich.