Proverbs 14:23
With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
In Context
24A prudent man is the crown of the wise: but the occupation of fools is evil.
Cross References
Job 28:10and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.
Ecclesiastes 3:9What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:23
22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. See here, 1. How miserably mistaken those are that not only do evil, but devise it: Do they not err? Yes, certainly they do; every one knows it. They think that by sinning with craft and contrivance, and carrying on their intrigues with more plot and artifice than others, they shall make a better hand of their sins than others do, and come off better. But they are mistaken. God's justice cannot be out-witted. Those that… Read the whole commentary →