Proverbs 28:19
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
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18He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:11He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Proverbs 14:4Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 24:34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
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 →