Proverbs 13:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The field of the poor may yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Cross References

Psalm 112:5

It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.

Proverbs 12:11

Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.

Proverbs 27:18

Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.

Proverbs 28:19

Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But all things considered, this is an advantage for a land: a king for a plowed field.

Deuteronomy 21:4

the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.