Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
World English Bible British
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
3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
5A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:23An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
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 →