Proverbs 14:4

If a man has no oxen to plow his field, he does not need to put grain in their feedbox, but if he has oxen, they will enable him to produce an abundant crop.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

In Context

3Foolish people will be punished [MTY] for what they say, but wise people will be protected by what they say [MTY].

5Witnesses who are reliable always say what ◄is true/really happened►, but witnesses who are not reliable constantly tell lies about what happened.

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Cross References

Proverbs 13:23Sometimes poor people’s fields produce plenty of food, but unjust people take away all that food.

1 Corinthians 9:9Moses wrote in one of those laws, “While an ox is threshing grain, you must not tie its mouth shut so that it cannot eat the grain.” ◄God was not only concerned about oxen when he gave that law./Was God only concerned about oxen when he gave that law?► [RHQ]

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:4

3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. See here, 1. A proud fool exposing himself. Where there is pride in the heart, and no wisdom in the head to suppress it, it commonly shows itself in the words: In the mouth there is pride, proud boasting, proud censuring, proud scorning, proud commanding and giving law; this is the rod, or branch, of pride; the word is used only here and Isa. xi. 1 . It grows from that root of bitterness which is in the heart; it is a… Read the whole commentary →

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