Verse List for PROV 21:25

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OET (OET-RV) The craving of slackers will kill them, ⇔ because their hands refuse to work.

OET-LV the_desire _of a _sluggard it_kills _him if/because hands _of_his they _refuse for_doing.

ULT The desire of the lazy one causes him to die, ⇔ for his hands refuse to act.

UST Lazy people want food, but they will die ⇔  because they refuse to work.

BSB & MSB The craving of the slacker kills him ⇔  because his hands refuse to work.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The desire of the sluggard kills him, ⇔  for his hands refuse to labour.

NET What the sluggard desires will kill him, ⇔ for his hands refuse to work.

LSV The desire of the slothful slays him,
For his hands have refused to work.

FBV Slackers die hungry because they refuse to work.

T4T ⇔  Lazy people, who refuse to work, will die of hunger ⇔  because they [SYN] do not earn money to buy food.

LEB • The craving of a lazy person will kill him,
• for his hands refuse to work.[fn]

BBE The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

Moff A lazy man’s ease is his undoing, ⇔  for his hands will not labour;

JPS The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

ASV The desire of the sluggard killeth him; ⇔ For his hands refuse to labor.

DRA Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.

YLT The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.

Drby The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work:

RV The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
(The desire of the slothful killeth/kills him; for his hands refuse to labour.)

SLT The desire of the slothful shall kill him, for his hands refused to work,

Wbstr The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labor.

KJB-1769 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
(The desire of the slothful killeth/kills him; for his hands refuse to labour.)

KJB-1611 The desire of the slouthfull killeth him: for his hands refuse to labour.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The desire of the slouthfull kylleth him: for his handes wyll not labour.
(The desire of the slothful killeth/kills him: for his hands will not labour.)

Gnva The desire of the slouthfull slayeth him: for his hands refuse to worke.
(The desire of the slothful slayeth/slays/slaughters him: for his hands refuse to work.)

Cvdl The voluptuousnesse of the slouthfull is his owne death, for his hades wyll not labor.
(The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labor.)

Wycl Desiris sleen a slow man; for hise hondis nolden worche ony thing.
(Desiris slain/killed a slow man; for his hands wouldn’t work any thing.)

Luth Der Faule stirbt über seinem Wünschen; denn seine Hände wollen nichts tun.
(The lazy_(one) dies(v) above his Wünschen; because/than his hands want nothing do/put.)

ClVg Desideria occidunt pigrum: noluerunt enim quidquam manus ejus operari.
(Desideria occidunt lazy: they_didn’t_want because anything hands his/her to_work.)

UHB תַּאֲוַ֣ת עָצֵ֣ל תְּמִיתֶ֑⁠נּוּ כִּֽי־מֵאֲנ֖וּ יָדָ֣י⁠ו לַ⁠עֲשֽׂוֹת׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐπιθυμίαι ὀκνηρὸν ἀποκτείνουσιν, οὐ γὰρ προαιροῦνται αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ ποιεῖν τι.

BrTr Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.