Proverbs 28:19
If you cultivate the land you'll have plenty of food, but if you chase fantasies you'll end up with nothing.
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18If you have integrity, you'll be kept safe, but if you live deviously, you'll fall.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:11If you cultivate the land you'll have plenty of food, but if you chase after worthless things you're stupid.
Proverbs 14:4Without oxen, the manger is empty, but a good harvest comes through the ox's strength.
Proverbs 24:34and poverty will attack you like a robber, destitution like an armed warrior.
Luke 15:12“The younger one told his father, ‘Father, give me my inheritance now.’ So the man divided his property 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 →