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Proverbs 16:26

New Messianic Version Bible

He that labours labours for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

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All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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

If youi be wise, youi shall be wise for yourself: but [if] youi scorn, youi alone shall bear [it].

There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.

An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.