Proverbs 28:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:11 : 11 Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.
  • Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh, 21 For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, 24 For riches `are' not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. 25 Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. 26 Lambs `are' for thy clothing, And the price of the field `are' he-goats, 27 And a sufficiency of goats' milk `is' for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
  • Luke 15:12-17 : 12 and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to `me', and he divided to them the living. 13 `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; 14 and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; 15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine, 16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him. 17 `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!
  • 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;
  • Prov 14:4 : 4 Without oxen a stall `is' clean, And great `is' the increase by the power of the ox.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 12:11
    91%

    11Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

  • Prov 28:20-22
    3 verses
    82%

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

    21To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

    22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • Prov 13:23
    76%

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

  • Prov 13:11
    76%

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

  • Prov 10:4
    76%

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

  • Prov 22:16
    75%

    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Prov 11:26-29
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Prov 19:15
    75%

    15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

  • Prov 21:5
    75%

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

  • Prov 28:27
    75%

    27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

  • Prov 28:8
    74%

    8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

  • Prov 11:24
    74%

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

  • Prov 22:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

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

    9The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

  • Prov 14:23
    74%

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

  • Prov 13:7
    74%

    7There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

  • Prov 21:17
    74%

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

  • Prov 16:26
    73%

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

  • Prov 28:6
    73%

    6Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

  • Prov 20:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 28:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.

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

  • Prov 19:1
    72%

    1Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

  • Prov 6:11
    72%

    11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 28:25
    72%

    25Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

  • Eccl 5:10
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • Prov 20:13
    71%

    13Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread.

  • Luke 12:21
    71%

    21so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    71%

    6And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

  • Prov 10:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15The wealth of the rich `is' his strong city, The ruin of the poor `is' their poverty.

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

  • Prov 11:18
    71%

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

  • Ps 107:37
    71%

    37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

  • Ps 128:2
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    2The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

  • Ps 129:7
    71%

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

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    71%

    9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

  • Prov 13:18
    71%

    18Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

  • Prov 12:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 24:34
    71%

    34And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

  • Eccl 5:12
    70%

    12Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

  • Prov 19:4
    70%

    4Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.