Proverbs 12:11

The Message

The one who stays on the job has food on the table; the witless chase whims and fancies.

Cross References

Psalm 26:4

I don’t hang out with tricksters, I don’t pal around with thugs; I hate that pack of gangsters, I don’t deal with double-dealers.

Proverbs 13:20

Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.

Proverbs 13:23

Banks foreclose on the farms of the poor, or else the poor lose their shirts to crooked lawyers.

Proverbs 14:23

Hard work always pays off; mere talk puts no bread on the table.

Proverbs 14:4

No cattle, no crops; a good harvest requires a strong ox for the plow.

Proverbs 20:13

Don’t be too fond of sleep; you’ll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up; then there’ll be food on the table.

Proverbs 28:19

Work your garden—you’ll end up with plenty of food; play and party—you’ll end up with an empty plate.

Proverbs 9:13

Then there’s this other woman, Madame Prostitute— brazen, empty-headed, frivolous. She sits on the front porch of her house on Main Street, And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out, “Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on? Steal off with me, I’ll show you a good time! No one will ever know—I’ll give you the time of your life.” But they don’t know about all the skeletons in her closet, that all her guests end up in hell.

Ephesians 4:28

Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy silver pieces from the shrine of Baal-of-the-Covenant. With the money he hired some reckless riffraff soldiers and they followed along after him. He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his half brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal—seventy men! And on one stone! The youngest, Jotham son of Jerub-Baal, managed to hide, the only survivor.