Proverbs 14:23
If you work hard, you will ◄accomplish something good/get a good income►, but if all you do is to talk and not work, you will remain poor.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
In Context
Cross References
Job 28:10They cut tunnels through the rocks, and they find ◄precious/very valuable► things.
Proverbs 12:24Those [SYN] who work hard become rulers of others; those who are lazy become slaves of others.
Ecclesiastes 3:9◄What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]►.
John 6:27Stop desiring food that will soon spoil! Instead, desire to get spiritual food that will last forever! Yearn for eternal life! That is what I, the one who came from heaven, will give you. God my Father has shown that he approves of me enabling me to do that.”
1 Timothy 5:13In addition, they generally become lazy. Specifically, as they just go about from house to house, they also begin ◄to gossip/to talk about people► and to meddle in other people’s affairs, saying what they should not say.
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 →