Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his ground will have plenty of bread; but he that runneth after idle persons will have enough of poverty.
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Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his ground will be satisfied with bread; but he that runneth after idle persons is void of sense.
Proverbs 14:4Where no oxen are, is the crib clean; but the abundance of harvests is [only] through the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 24:34But then will thy poverty come like a rover; and thy wants as a man armed with a shield.
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 →