Proverbs 28:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Those who work the land will have plenty to eat, but those with worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Whoever works his land shall be satisfied with bread. But whoever pursues leisure will be filled with need.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness shall be filled with poverty.

Proverbs 28:19 Cross References

Proverbs 12:11

Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 14:4

Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 24:34

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the temple of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows who followed him.