4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
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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? …
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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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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…
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