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Thursday, July 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Proverbs 19:15

Slouthfulnesse casteth into a deep sleepe: and an idle soule shall suffer hunger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idleness;   Slothfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abundance-Want;   Business Life;   Indolent Sleep;   Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;   Slothfulness;   Vices;   Want;   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Hunger;   Laziness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idleness and Sloth;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Idle;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sleep;   Slothful;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hunger;   Idle;   Sleep, Deep;   Suffering;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Menander;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Laziness induces deep sleep,and a lazy person will go hungry.
Hebrew Names Version
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
King James Version
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
English Standard Version
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
New American Standard Bible
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And a lazy person will suffer hunger.
New Century Version
Lazy people sleep a lot, and idle people will go hungry.
Amplified Bible
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep [unmindful of lost opportunity], And the idle person will suffer hunger.
World English Bible
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.
Legacy Standard Bible
Laziness casts into a deep sleep,And a slack‑handed soul will suffer hunger.
Berean Standard Bible
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Contemporary English Version
If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.
Complete Jewish Bible
Laziness makes people fall asleep, and an idle person will go hungry.
Darby Translation
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Easy-to-Read Version
Laziness brings on sleep, and an appetite for rest brings on hunger.
George Lamsa Translation
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and a proud man shall suffer hunger.
Good News Translation
Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.
Lexham English Bible
Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.
Literal Translation
Laziness makes one fall into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Slouthfulnes bryngeth slepe, & an ydell soule shal suffer hoger.
American Standard Version
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Bible in Basic English
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Slouthfulnesse bryngeth sleepe, and a soule accustomed with craft, shall suffer hunger.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
English Revised Version
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Slouth bringith in sleep; and a negligent soule schal haue hungur.
Update Bible Version
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Webster's Bible Translation
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
New English Translation
Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
New King James Version
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.
New Living Translation
Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry.
New Life Bible
Being lazy makes one go into a deep sleep, and a lazy man will suffer from being hungry.
New Revised Standard
Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sloth, falleth into a deep sleep, and, a soul that is indolent, shall famish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Revised Standard Version
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Young's Literal Translation
Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
THE MESSAGE
Life collapses on loafers; lazybones go hungry.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Laziness casts into a deep sleep, And an idle man will suffer hunger.

Contextual Overview

15 Slouthfulnesse casteth into a deep sleepe: and an idle soule shall suffer hunger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

casteth: Proverbs 19:24, Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 20:13, Proverbs 23:21, Proverbs 24:33, Isaiah 56:10, Romans 13:11, Romans 13:12, Ephesians 5:14

and: Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 20:13, Proverbs 23:21, 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:21 - General 2 Samuel 11:2 - arose from 2 Samuel 19:7 - comfortably unto thy Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 12:24 - but Proverbs 20:4 - sluggard Proverbs 26:13 - General Matthew 20:3 - standing Matthew 20:6 - Why Luke 16:3 - I cannot 1 Thessalonians 5:6 - let us not 2 Peter 1:8 - barren

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they lay downe, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and yong, all the people from euery quarter.
Genesis 19:5
And they called vnto Lot, and said vnto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out vnto vs, that we may know them.
Genesis 19:7
And said, I pray you, brethren, doe not so wickedly.
Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to passe, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, looke not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plaine: escape to the mountaine, lest thou bee consumed.
Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot doe any thing till thou bee come thither: therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained vpon Sodome & vpon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, from the LORD out of heauen.
Genesis 19:25
And he ouerthrew those cities, and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew vpon the ground.
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham gate vp earely in the morning, to the place, where hee stood before the LORD.
2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he saith, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of saluation)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep,.... Slothful persons are generally sleepy, and are very desirous of sleep, and indulge themselves in it; they spend their time, day and night, in sleep and drowsiness; and are quite careless and unconcerned about either their temporal or eternal good; see Proverbs 6:9;

and an idle soul shall suffer hunger; and perish with it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense: an idle person, that will not work, ought not to eat; and an idle soul, or one that is unconcerned about his soul, and the spiritual food of it, shall perish for want of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Casteth into a deep sleep - Better, causeth deep sleep to fall.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:15. Into a deep sleep — תרדמה tardemah, the same into which Adam was thrown, before Eve was taken from his side. Sloth renders a man utterly unconscious of all his interests. Though he has frequently felt hunger, yet he is regardless that his continual slothfulness must necessarily plunge him into more sufferings.


 
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