Proverbs 12:11
Farmers who work hard in their fields will produce good crops that will give them plenty to eat, but those who waste their time working on worthless projects are foolish.
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Genesis 3:19All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.”
Psalms 26:4I do not spend my time with liars and I stay away from hypocrites.
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners tempt/entice you to do what is wrong, say “No” to them.
Proverbs 6:32But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
Proverbs 9:6◄Leave/Go away from► other foolish people, and if you do that, you will continue to live. Walk on the road that will enable you to ◄have knowledge/know what is true and what is not true►.”
Proverbs 9:16“You people who need to understand more, come into my house!” And to those who are ignorant, they call out,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:11
10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. See here, 1. To how great a degree a good man will be merciful; he has not only a compassion for the human nature under its greatest abasements, but he regards even the life of his beast, not only because it is his servant, but because it is God's creature, and in conformity to Providence, which preserves man and beast. The beasts that are under our care must be provided for, must have convenient food and rest, must… Read the whole commentary →