Proverbs 14:23
Good News Translation
Work and you will earn a living; if you sit around talking you will be poor.

New Revised Standard Version
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Contemporary English Version
Hard work is worthwhile, but empty talk will make you poor.

New American Bible
In all labor there is profit, but mere talk tends only to loss.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

all

Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute.

Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Hebrews 6:10,11 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints. . . .

but

Proverbs 10:10 The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat. . . .

1 Timothy 5:13 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Context
The Wise Woman
22They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things. 23In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.24The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.…
Cross References
Proverbs 14:22
They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

Proverbs 14:24
The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.

Proverbs 14:22
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