Proverbs 16:26
The soul of a man travailing travaileth to himself; for his mouth compelled him. (A person labouring laboureth for himself; for his hunger compelled him.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 thou art wise, thou shalt be wise to thyself, and to thy neighbours. Forsooth if thou art a scorner, thou alone shalt bear evil. (If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise, or gain advantage, for thyself, and for thy friends as well. But if thou art a mocker, thou alone shalt bear the evil.)
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the travail of a man is in his mouth, but the soul of him shall not be [ful] filled with goods. (All the labour of a person is for his mouth, yet his belly, or his appetite, shall never be fulfilled with enough good things.)
2 Thessalonians 3:8neither without our own travail, we ate bread of any man, but in travail and weariness wrought night and day, that we grieved none of you. (nor without our own work, did we eat anyone’s bread, but with labour and in weariness worked night and day, so that we grieved none of you.)
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 →