Proverbs 16:26

A Conservative Version

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him.

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All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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

If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.