thoughts. reckonings, or calculatings.
the diligent. a diligent one.
Here diligence is opposed, not to sloth but to haste. Undue hurry is as fatal to success as undue procrastination.
The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of (c) every one [that is] hasty only to want. (c) He who goes rashly about his busin...
Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which cou...
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. The thoughts of the diligent (and the s...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).
One who is in a hurry to be rich hastens to want.
The thoughts of every one that is hasty tend only to want. — This proverb is met with on all sides: “More haste, worse speed”; “Festina lente”; “Ei...
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Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, the...
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrif...
The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness ,.... A man that is thoughtful and studious, and wisely forms schemes in his mind, and dil...
The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want. Ver. 5. The thoughts of the diligent ten...
The thoughts of the diligent Who carefully and industriously prosecutes what he hath wisely contrived and resolved; tend only to plenteousness To...
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Here is, 1. The way to b...
The diligent, who carefully and industriously prosecutes what he hath wisely contrived and resolved. That is hasty; who manageth his affairs rash...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 21:5 . Thoughts , rather the counsels , the calculatings . Proverbs 21:6 . Vanity tossed to and fro . Rather a fl...
Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably...
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness. Diligence Diligence, while it is opposed to laziness, is opposed also to rashness--to...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used...
v. 5. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; because they are industrious and thrifty, they have success; but of every one that...
1 Thessalonians 4:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:12 ; Ephesians 4:28 ; Proverbs 10:4 ; Proverbs 13:4 ; Proverbs 14:29 ; Proverbs 20:21 ; Proverbs 27:...
Hasty — Who manages his affairs rashly.
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.