Proverbs 13:23
Many meats be in the new (ly)-tilled fields of fathers; and be gathered to other men without doom. (Much food for the poor could be in untilled fields; but other men unjustly keep that land from being worked.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6O! thou slow man (or O thou lazy one!), go to the ant; and behold thou his ways, and learn thou wisdom.
Proverbs 12:11He that worketh his land, shall be filled with loaves; but he that followeth idleness, is most fool (ish). He that is sweet, that is mild, liveth in temperances; and in his admonishings he forsaketh despisings, (or He who is humble, liveth temperately; and he forsaketh despisings in all of his admonishings).
Proverbs 27:18He that keepeth a fig tree (safe), shall eat the fruits thereof; and he that is a keeper of his lord, shall be glorified. (He who keepeth a fig tree safe, shall eat its fruits; and he who keepeth his lord safe, shall be honoured.)
Proverbs 28:19He that worketh his land, shall be filled with loaves; he that followeth idleness (or but he who is idle, or lazy), shall be filled with neediness.
Ecclesiastes 8:5He that keepeth the commandment of God, shall not feel anything of evil; the heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:23
22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. See here, 1. How a good man's estate lasts: He leaves an inheritance to his children's children. It is part of his praise that he is thoughtful for posterity, that he does not lay all out upon himself, but is in care to do well for those that come after him, not by withholding more than is meet, but by a prudent and decent frugality. He trains up his children to this, that they may leave it to… Read the whole commentary →