Proverbs 13:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor: But there is that is destroyed by reason of 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

Proverbs 12:11

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

Proverbs 28:19

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

Ecclesiastes 5:9

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Psalm 112:5

Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgement.

Proverbs 27:18

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

Proverbs 12:14

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: And the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

Deuteronomy 21:4

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