Proverbs 14:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 14:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:9-11
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? …
Proverbs 13:23
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Amos 4:6
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

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Bull Bullock Cattle Crib Diligence Economics Frugality Idleness

Commentary

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

(vv. 4)

Note, 1. The neglect of husbandry is the way to poverty: Where no oxen are, to till the ground and tread out the corn, the crib is empty, is clean; there is no straw for the cattle, and consequently no bread for the service of man. Scarcity is represented by cleanness of teeth, Amos 4:6. Where no oxen are there is nothing to be done at the ground, and then nothing to be had out of it; the crib ind…

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

(vv. 4)

4. crib is clean--empty; so “cleanness of teeth” denotes want of food (compare Am 4:6). Men get the proper fruit of their doings (Ga 6:7).