Proverbs 16:26 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁶ He who labours, labours for himself, For his mouth drives him on.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; For his mouth craveth it of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ The appetite of the laborer works for him, for [the need of] his mouth urges him on.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.

Common English Bible

²⁶ The appetite of workers labors for them, for their hunger presses them on.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ The soul of the laborer labors for himself, because his mouth has driven him to it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Proverbs 16:26 Cross References

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is profit, But talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death

Proverbs 16:27

A man of Beliya‛al plots evil, And on his lips it is like a burning fire.

Proverbs 9:12

If you have become wise, You have become wise for yourself, And if you have scoffed, You alone bear it.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not satisfied.