Proverbs 13:23 - Revised Standard Version

The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: But there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Much food is in the tilled land of the poor, but there are those who are destroyed because of injustice.

American Standard Version (1901)

Much food is in the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.

Common English Bible

A poor person’s land might produce much food, but it is unjustly swept away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Much nourishment is in the fallow land of the fathers. But for others, it is gathered without judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered with out judgment.

Proverbs 13:23 Cross References

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

Proverbs 27:18

He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.

Deuteronomy 21:4

And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.