Proverbs 16:26
If a worker ◄has an appetite/is hungry►, that urges him to work hard because he [SYN] wants to earn money to buy things to eat.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are the one who will benefit from it; if you ridicule becoming wise, you are the one who will suffer.
Ecclesiastes 6:7People work hard to earn enough money to buy food to eat [MTY], but often they never get enough to eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:8Specifically, we did not eat anyone’s food if we did not pay that person for it. Instead, we worked very hard ◄ to support ourselves/to earn the money to buy what we needed►. We worked hard [DOU] during the day and during the night, in order that we would not have to depend on any of you to supply what we needed.
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 →