Proverbs 28:19
He 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.
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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 14:4Where oxen be not, the cratch is void (or the stall is empty); but where full many corns appear, there the strength of the ox is [made] open.
Proverbs 24:34and then thy neediness as a courier shall come to thee, and thy beggary as an armed man.
Luke 15:12and the younger of them said to the father [or and the younger said to his father], Father, give me the portion of (the) chattel [or of (the) substance] that falleth to me. And he parted to them the chattel [or the substance], (or And he divided the goods between them).
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:19
18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Note, 1. Those that are honest are always safe. He that acts with sincerity, that speaks as he thinks, has a single eye, in every thing, to the glory of God and the good of his brethren, that would not, for a world, do an unjust thing if he knew it, that in all manner of conversation walks uprightly, he shall be saved hereafter. We find a glorious company of those in whose mouth was found no guile, Rev. xiv. 5 . They… Read the whole commentary →