Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
In Context
3In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
5A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
1 Corinthians 9:9For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:4
3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. See here, 1. A proud fool exposing himself. Where there is pride in the heart, and no wisdom in the head to suppress it, it commonly shows itself in the words: In the mouth there is pride, proud boasting, proud censuring, proud scorning, proud commanding and giving law; this is the rod, or branch, of pride; the word is used only here and Isa. xi. 1 . It grows from that root of bitterness which is in the heart; it is a… Read the whole commentary →