Proverbs 14:4
Without oxen a stall [is] clean, And great [is] the increase by the power of the ox.
Young's Literal Translation
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
3In the mouth of a fool [is] a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
5A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:23Abundance of food — the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
1 Corinthians 9:9for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?
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 →