Proverbs 13:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Ecclesiastes 8:5-6
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. …
Psalms 112:5
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Diligence Economics Frugality Idleness Industry

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. The laboring poor prosper more than those who injudiciously or wickedly strive, by fraud and violence, to supersede the necessity of lawful labor.