Proverbs 28:19
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:11He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.
Proverbs 14:4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but by the strength of the ox is much increase.
Proverbs 24:34so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
Luke 15:12and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his living.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:19
18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Note, 1. Those that are honest are always safe. He that acts with sincerity, that speaks as he thinks, has a single eye, in every thing, to the glory of God and the good of his brethren, that would not, for a world, do an unjust thing if he knew it, that in all manner of conversation walks uprightly, he shall be saved hereafter. We find a glorious company of those in whose mouth was found no guile, Rev. xiv. 5 . They… Read the whole commentary →