Proverbes 21:5

Darby's French Translation

Les pensées d'un homme diligent ne mènent qu'à l'abondance; mais tout étourdi ne court qu'à la disette.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Les pensées d'un homme diligent le conduisent à l'abondance, mais tout étourdi tombe dans l'indigence.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Les projets de celui qui est diligent, produisent l'abondance; mais tout homme étourdi tombe dans la pauvreté.

Louis Segond (1910)
Les projets de l'homme diligent ne mènent qu'à l'abondance, Mais celui qui agit avec précipitation n'arrive qu'à la disette.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thoughts: Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 27:23-27, Ephesians 4:28, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:12

of every: Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 20:21, Proverbs 28:22

Reciprocal: Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 29:20 - words

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness,.... A man that is thoughtful and studious, and wisely forms schemes in his mind, and diligently pursues them; the issue of it is, generally speaking, prosperity and plenty: such a man is usually thriving and flourishing; and this holds good in things spiritual, as well as in things temporal, Matthew 25:29;

but of everyone [that is] hasty only to want; that is in haste to be rich, and is resolved to be so, right or wrong, he comes at last to poverty and want: or he who is rash and precipitate in acting, who never thinks before he acts, but rashly engages in an affair; or, however, does not give himself time enough to think it over, but, as soon as ever it has entered his thoughts, he immediately attempts to put it in execution; a man so thoughtless and inconsiderate, so rash and hasty, brings himself and family to poverty; see Proverbs 20:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Here diligence is opposed, not to sloth but to haste. Undue hurry is as fatal to success as undue procrastination.