◄ Proverbs 14:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Without any oxen to pull the plow your barn will be empty, but with them it will be full of grain.

New Revised Standard Version
Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

Contemporary English Version
Without the help of an ox there can be no crop, but with a strong ox a big crop is possible.

New American Bible
Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean; but abundant crops come through the strength of the bull.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.

clean

Amos 4:6 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

but

Proverbs 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment.

1 Corinthians 9:9-11 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? . . .

Context
The Wise Woman
…3In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them. 4Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.5A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.…
Cross References
Psalm 144:14
Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.

Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

Proverbs 14:3
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