“The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 21 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.