Proverbs 28:19
Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
20A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:11Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
Proverbs 14:4Without oxen a stall [is] clean, And great [is] the increase by the power of the ox.
Proverbs 24:34And thy poverty hath come [as] a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
Luke 15:12and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.
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 →