The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.
From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.
And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.