Proverbs 28:19

A Conservative Version

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

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

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.

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

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

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

so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.