Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
In context
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. 4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. 7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just. 8 The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 21:5 in the KJV
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But of every one that is hasty only to want.
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 21:5 in the NIV
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.