Proverbs 6:6-11 warns the sluggard to learn from the ant — laziness leads to poverty, directly expanding on 'lazy hands make for poverty' in Proverbs 10:4.

Proverbs 24:30-34 describes the sluggard's field and concludes with poverty from folded hands, expanding on the slack hand image.

Proverbs 21:5 says the diligent's plans bring abundance, echoing the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 20:13 warns that love of sleep brings poverty, mirroring the slack hand's consequence.

In Proverbs 20:4, the sluggard's failure to plow leads to poverty, reinforcing the same cause-effect as the slack hand.

Proverbs 19:15 states laziness brings deep sleep and hunger — directly reinforcing the consequence of 'lazy hands make for poverty' in Proverbs 10:4.

Proverbs 13:4 states the sluggard craves nothing, the diligent are richly supplied — identical teaching.

Proverbs 12:24 repeats the contrast — diligent hands lead to ruling, laziness to slave labor — echoing the principle of Proverbs 10:4.

In Proverbs 18:9, a slack worker is called a brother to a destroyer, deepening the condemnation of laziness in the proverb.

In Proverbs 6:11, the same warning about poverty coming like a thief reinforces the consequence of laziness stated in the proverb.

In Proverbs 22:29, skill in work leads to serving kings, expanding on the reward of diligence mentioned in the proverb.

In Proverbs 24:34, the identical warning about poverty coming like a thief echoes the proverb's consequence for laziness.

Proverbs 11:24 contrasts generous giving with stingy withholding — different from laziness but similarly links behavior to poverty or wealth.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 shows sloth causing a leaky roof, illustrating the same costly laziness as the slack hand.

Hebrews 6:12 warns against being sluggish, directly echoing the 'slack hand' and urging faithful diligence.

2 Peter 1:5-10 calls for diligence in virtue to ensure fruitfulness, paralleling the diligent hand's reward.

In John 6:27, Jesus contrasts by urging labor for eternal food, not perishable, opposing Proverbs' focus on material diligence.

In Joshua 18:3, Joshua chides Israel for waiting to possess the land, urging action—a direct parallel to the call against laziness in the proverb.

In 1 Corinthians 15:58, Paul assures that labor in the Lord is not vain, echoing the principle that diligent work yields lasting reward, now in a spiritual sense.

Hebrews 6:11 exhorts earnestness in faith, applying the diligence principle to spiritual hope.