Proverbs 12:11
If you cultivate the land you'll have plenty of food, but if you chase after worthless things you're stupid.
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10Good people look after their animals, but the care given by wicked is really cruelty.
12Wicked people long for ill-gotten gains, but good people are productive themselves.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Psalms 26:4I don't join in with liars and I don't associate with hypocrites.
Proverbs 1:10My son, if evil people try to tempt you, don't give into them.
Proverbs 6:32Any man who commits adultery with a woman has no sense; he who does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 9:6Leave your foolish ways and you will live; follow the path that makes sense.”
Proverbs 9:16“Everybody who needs to learn, come and see me!” To people who don't have any sense she says,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:11
10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. See here, 1. To how great a degree a good man will be merciful; he has not only a compassion for the human nature under its greatest abasements, but he regards even the life of his beast, not only because it is his servant, but because it is God's creature, and in conformity to Providence, which preserves man and beast. The beasts that are under our care must be provided for, must have convenient food and rest, must… Read the whole commentary →