Proverbs 16:26
A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
In Context
25There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:12Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. + 9:12 Heb. — to beginning of verse 13. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labor of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:26
Malice and Envy. 25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. This we had before ( ch. xiv. 12 ), but here it is repeated, as that which is very necessary to be thought of, 1. By way of caution to us all to take heed of deceiving ourselves in the great concerns of our souls by resting in that which seems right and is not really so, and, for the preventing of a self-delusion, to be impartial in self-examination and keep up a jealousy over ourselves. 2. By way of terror… Read the whole commentary →