Proverbs 12:11

A Conservative Version

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

Psalm 128:2

For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat bread gratis from any man, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 14:4

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

Proverbs 7:7

and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding

Proverbs 13:20

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

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

Proverbs 9:16

He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Proverbs 9:13

The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.

Psalm 26:4

I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers.

Judges 9:4

And they gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and unstable fellows who followed him.

Jonah 2:8

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Proverbs 27:27

And [then will be] goats' milk enough for thy food; for the food of thy household, and maintenance for thy maidens.

Proverbs 13:23

Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor, but there is [that is] consumed because of injustice.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.