Proverbs 13:23

Modern English Version

Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but by injustice it is swept away.

Cross References

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; he will guide his affairs with justice.

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who chases worthless pursuits lacks wisdom.

Proverbs 12:14

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words, and the work of a man’s hands will be recompensed to him.

Proverbs 27:18

He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master will be honored.

Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who chases empty pursuits will have poverty enough.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But this is an advantage to the land in every way: a king committed to a cultivated field.

Deuteronomy 21:4

and the elders of that city must bring down the heifer to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.