Proverbs 12:11

New English Translation

The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Psalm 128:2

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Psalm 26:4

I do not associate with deceitful men, or consort with those who are dishonest.

Proverbs 13:20

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 13:23

There is abundant food in the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

Proverbs 14:23

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

Proverbs 14:4

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen.

Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Proverbs 28:19

The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

Proverbs 6:32

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

Proverbs 7:7

and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.

Proverbs 9:13

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

Proverbs 9:16

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here,” she says to those who lack understanding.

Proverbs 9:6

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

Ephesians 4:28

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Judges 9:4

They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous men as his followers.