Proverbs 12:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: But he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits is lacking in sense and is without understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Those who work their land will have plenty to eat, but those who engage in empty pursuits have no sense.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Whoever works his land shall be satisfied with bread. But whoever continually pursues leisure is most foolish. Whoever is soothed by lingering over wine leaves behind contempt in his strongholds.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish. He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

Proverbs 12:11 Cross References

Genesis 3:19

in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Psalm 128:2

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalm 26:4

I have not sat with vain persons; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Proverbs 13:20

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise: But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Proverbs 13:23

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

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is profit: But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 14:4

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: But much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; And maintenance for thy maidens.

Proverbs 28:19

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

Proverbs 6:32

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it that would destroy his own soul.

Proverbs 7:7

And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 9:13

The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Proverbs 9:16

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

Proverbs 9:6

Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

Jonah 2:8

They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labour and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

Judges 9:4

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, which followed him.