箴言 28:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耕種自己田地的，必有充足糧食；追求虛幻的，必飽受窮乏之苦。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耕 种 自 己 田 地 的 ， 必 得 饱 食 ； 追 随 虚 浮 的 ， 足 受 穷 乏 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Those who work their land will have plenty of food, but the ones who chase empty dreams instead will end up poor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that tilleth: Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 14:4, Proverbs 27:23-27

but: Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 23:20, Proverbs 23:21, Judges 9:4, Luke 15:12-17

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 13:7 - vain men Proverbs 13:23 - food Proverbs 14:23 - all Proverbs 29:3 - he Ecclesiastes 5:9 - the profit

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.

Genesis 28:4
May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham."

Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 28:22
This stone which I have set up on its end will be the house of God. And I will give God one-tenth of all he gives me."

Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to the city of Bethel and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were running away from your brother Esau."

Genesis 48:3
Then Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me there.

1 Kings 12:29
Jeroboam put one golden calf in the city of Bethel and the other in the city of Dan.

Hosea 4:15
"Israel, you act like a prostitute, but do not be guilty toward the Lord . Don't go to Gilgal or go up to Beth Aven. Don't make promises, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives...'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread,.... Or, "shall he filled" or "satisfied with bread" s: shall have bread enough, and to spare; provisions of all sorts, and in great plenty;

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but he that followeth, after vain [persons]; empty idle persons; keeps company and spends his time with them, when he should be about the business of his calling:

shall have poverty enough; or be "filled with [it]" t; he shall be exceeding poor, reduced to the utmost distress, be clothed in rags and destitute of daily food.

s ישבע לחם "saturabitur pane", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Schultens. t ישבע "satiabitur", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "saturabitur", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Schultens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 28:19. He that tilleth his land — See Proverbs 12:11.