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23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Proverbs 13:23

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 23)

See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: Much food is in the tillage of the poor , the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well. Many make it an excuse for their idleness that they h f6d ave but a little to work on, a very little to be doing with; but...

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