Proverbs 14:23
In all painful labor there is profit; but mere words of the lips [lead] only to want.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
In Context
24The crown of the wise is their riches; but the folly of fools is [only] folly.
Cross References
Job 28:10Amid rocks he heweth out canals: and every precious thing doth his eye behold.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent will bear rule; but the indolent must become tributary.
Ecclesiastes 3:9What profit hath [now] he that worketh in that wherein he toileth?
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 →