Proverbs 14:23
abundance shall be in each good work/in every good work. Soothly where full many words be, there neediness is oft, (or Truly, where there be a great many words, there often is neediness, or lack, or want).
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 28:10He hewed down rivers in stones (or He hewed out rivers among the stones); and his eye saw all precious thing/s.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of strong men shall have lordship; but the hand that is slow, shall serve to tributes. (The hand of the strong shall rule; but those who be lazy, shall become slaves.)
Ecclesiastes 3:9What hath a man more of his travail? (What more hath a person for all of his labour?)
John 6:27Work ye not (for) meat that perisheth, but (for) that that dwelleth into everlasting life, which meat man’s Son shall give to you; for God the Father hath marked him. (Work not for the food that perisheth, but for that which remaineth unto eternal life, which food man’s Son shall give to you; for God the Father hath sealed him.)
1 Timothy 5:13Also they (being) idle learn to go about houses, not only idle, but [they be] full of words and curious [or and curiosity], speaking things that it behooveth not.
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 →