Proverbs 14:4
Without oxen, the manger is empty, but a good harvest comes through the ox's strength.
Free Bible Version
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
3What stupid people say punishes their pride, but what wise people say will protect them.
5A trustworthy witness doesn't lie, but a false witness is deceptive.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:23The unplowed ground of the poor could produce a lot of food, but it's stolen through injustice.
1 Corinthians 9:9In the law of Moses it's written, “Don't muzzle the ox when it's threshing out the grain.” Was God just thinking about oxen?
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 →