Proverbs 13:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
  • Prov 28:19 : 19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
  • Eccl 5:9 : 9 He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
  • Eccl 8:5-6 : 5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision. 6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
  • Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord. 8 How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false. 9 The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them? 10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
  • Prov 27:18 : 18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; 24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. 25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. 26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: 27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
  • Prov 12:14 : 14 From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
  • Prov 6:6-9 : 6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: 7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
  • Prov 11:5-6 : 5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall. 6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 13:22
    78%

    22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Prov 11:24
    77%

    24 A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

  • Prov 28:19
    76%

    19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • Prov 28:3
    76%

    3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    76%

    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

    8 A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.

  • Prov 10:15
    75%

    15 The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    75%

    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Job 5:5
    75%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Prov 22:9
    74%

    9 He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Prov 13:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

    25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • Prov 12:11
    74%

    11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

  • Prov 15:6
    74%

    6 In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

  • Prov 14:23
    74%

    23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

  • Prov 28:8
    73%

    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 28:6
    73%

    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

  • Prov 28:27
    73%

    27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Ps 37:16
    73%

    16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

  • Joel 1:17
    73%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Prov 10:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

    4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

  • Prov 14:31
    73%

    31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Prov 13:11
    73%

    11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Prov 19:17
    72%

    17 He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

  • Prov 19:1
    72%

    1 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

  • Prov 21:13
    72%

    13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Prov 29:7
    72%

    7 The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

  • Prov 15:16
    72%

    16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

  • Job 20:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

    22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

  • Prov 11:26
    72%

    26 He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Prov 30:14
    71%

    14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

  • Prov 16:8
    71%

    8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

  • Prov 13:2
    71%

    2 A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Prov 21:5
    71%

    5 The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

  • Prov 6:11
    71%

    11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Eccl 6:2
    71%

    2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Prov 20:21
    71%

    21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

  • Prov 21:26
    71%

    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Prov 19:15
    71%

    15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 14:20
    71%

    20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

  • Isa 3:14
    71%

    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

  • Prov 24:34
    71%

    34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.