Proverbs 13:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor: But there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Much food is in the tilled land of the poor, but there are those who are destroyed because of injustice.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.

Common English Bible

²³ A poor person’s land might produce much food, but it is unjustly swept away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Much nourishment is in the fallow land of the fathers. But for others, it is gathered without 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.