New Revised Standard Version
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.

Contemporary English Version
If you plan and work hard, you will have plenty; if you hurry to get rich, you will end up poor.

New American Bible
The plans of the diligent end in profit, but those of the hasty end in loss.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

thoughts

Proverbs 10:4 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 13:4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

Proverbs 27:23-27 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks: . . .

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's. . . .

of every

Proverbs 14:29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 20:21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

Proverbs 28:22 A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.