Proverbs 13:23 Cross References - LEB

²³ There is much food in the field of the poor, but _⌊it is swept away_⌋* by _⌊injustice_⌋.*

⁵ It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his _⌊business properly_⌋.*

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. ⁷ It has no chief, officer, or ruler. ⁸ In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance. ⁹ How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest— ¹¹ like a _⌊robber_⌋* shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

⁵ The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness. ⁶ The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive.

¹¹ He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks _⌊sense_⌋.*

¹⁴ From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of _⌊a man's labor_⌋* will return to him.

¹⁸ He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master* will be honored.

²³ You will surely know the _⌊condition_⌋* of your flock; your heart* attends to the herds. ²⁴ For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation. ²⁵ When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered. ²⁶ Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field. ²⁷ And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and the _⌊nourishment_⌋* of your maidservants.

¹⁹ He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty of poverty.

⁹ The produce of the land is exploited by everyone; _⌊even the king profits from the field of the poor_⌋!*

⁵ Whoever obeys his command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the proper time and the right procedure. ⁶ For there is a proper time and right procedure for every matter, even though the trouble of man weighs heavy upon him. ⁷ Even the stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and the turtledove, and the swallow, and the song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance* of Yahweh. ⁸ How can you say, 'We are wise and the law of Yahweh is with us'? Look, surely _⌊the lying stylus of the scribes_⌋* has made it a lie. ⁹ The wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what is wisdom to them? ¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from the smallest to the greatest, all of them make profit for unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.