Proverbs 14:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 14:23 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. …
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Hebrews 6:10-11
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. …

Topics

Diligence Economics Frugality Idleness Industry Labor Prodigality (waywardness)Rising

Commentary

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

(vv. 23)

Note, 1. Working, without talking, will make men rich: In all labour of the head, or of the hand, there is profit; it will turn to some good account or other. Industrious people are generally thriving people, and where there is something done there is something to be had. The stirring hand gets a penny. It is good th 40cb erefore to keep in business, and to keep in action, and what our hand finds…

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

(vv. 23)

23. labour--painful diligence. talk ... penury--idle and vain promises and plans.