Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 6:6-19
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Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
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For whereas he has no leader, nor anyone to compel him, and is under no master,
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he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays up abundant supplies in harvest. [ 6:8A] Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; [ 6:8B] whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: [ 6:8C] though weak in body, she is advanced by honoring wisdom.
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How long will you lie, O sluggard? And when will you awake out of sleep?
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You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.
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Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveler, and your need as a swift courier. [ 6:11A] But if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
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A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
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And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.
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[His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
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Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly, overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
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For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
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The eye of the haughty, an unjust tongue, hands shedding innocent blood,
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a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, [are hateful to God].
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An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brothers.
Job 4:8
Accordingly, as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.
Job 5:27
Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard- but reflect within yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].
Job 15:17
But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;
Psalm 37:25
I was [once] young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.
Psalm 107:42
The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-8
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So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter.
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And I praised all the dead that had already died more than the living, as many as are alive until now.
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Better also than both these is he who has not yet been, who has not seen all the evil work that is done under the sun.
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And I saw all labor, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
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Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of trouble and grasping for the wind.
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So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun.
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There is one [alone], and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth. And for whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, and an evil trouble.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
I have seen all things in the days of my vanity; there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
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So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things in which man has power over man, to afflict him.
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And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place. And they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus. This also is vanity.
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Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who are quick to do evil, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.
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Proverbs 10:13
He that brings forth wisdom from his lips smites the fool with a rod.
Proverbs 12:11
He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. [ 12:11A] He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strongholds.