Proverbs 12:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

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  • Prov 28:19 : 19 Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.
  • Prov 14:23 : 23 In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.
  • 1 Thess 4:11-12 : 11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;
  • Prov 14:4 : 4 Without oxen a stall `is' clean, And great `is' the increase by the power of the ox.
  • Eph 4:28 : 28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 and they give to him seventy silverings out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hireth with them men, vain and unstable, and they go after him;
  • Ps 26:4 : 4 I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.
  • Prov 27:27 : 27 And a sufficiency of goats' milk `is' for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
  • Prov 9:13 : 13 A foolish woman `is' noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.
  • Prov 9:16 : 16 `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.
  • Prov 1:10-19 : 10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit, 13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil, 14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' 15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, 16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. 18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. 19 So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. 15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Prov 13:23 : 23 Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.

    20A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

  • Prov 13:11
    74%

    11Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

  • Prov 13:23
    74%

    23Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

  • Prov 16:26
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    26A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.

  • Prov 11:24-30
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    73%

    24There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

    25A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

    26Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing `is' for the head of him who is selling.

    27Whoso is earnestly seeking good Seeketh a pleasing thing, And whoso is seeking evil -- it meeteth him.

    28Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.

    29Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

    30The fruit of the righteous `is' a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls `is' wise.

  • Prov 12:12
    72%

    12The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.

  • Prov 12:27
    72%

    27The slothful roasteth not his hunting, And the wealth of a diligent man is precious.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.

  • Prov 15:21
    71%

    21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth `his' going.

  • Prov 12:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14From the fruit of the mouth `is' one satisfied `with' good, And the deed of man's hands returneth to him.

    15The way of a fool `is' right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel `is' wise.

  • Prov 21:5
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    5The purposes of the diligent `are' only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

  • Prov 10:4
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    4Poor `is' he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

  • Eccl 5:9-11
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    71%

    9And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

    10Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

    11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

  • Prov 28:11
    71%

    11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

  • Prov 14:14
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    14From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

  • Ps 107:37
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    37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17Whoso `is' loving mirth `is' a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

  • Deut 20:6
    70%

    6`And who `is' the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.

  • Prov 11:12
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    12Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

  • Prov 14:23
    70%

    23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

  • Prov 12:9-10
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    70%

    9Better `is' the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

    10The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

  • Prov 10:16
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    16The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

  • Lev 26:5
    70%

    5and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing-`time'; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

  • Prov 21:21
    69%

    21Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.