“idle” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word idle appears 16 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 15 matching verses are shown below.
- Exodus 5:8 And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 5:17 And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
- Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Proverbs 31:27 She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:
- Wisdom 14:5 But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved.
- Ecclesiasticus 33:26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
- Ecclesiasticus 33:28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:
- Ecclesiasticus 37:14 Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel.
- Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.
- Matthew 20:3 And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle.
- Matthew 20:6 But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
- Luke 24:11 And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not believe them.
- 1 Timothy 5:13 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.