Proverbs 13:23
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- food
- Proverbs 12:11, 14; Proverbs 27:18, 23–27; Proverbs 28:19; Ecclesiastes 5:9
- destroyed
- Proverbs 6:6–11; Proverbs 11:5, 6; Psalm 112:5; Ecclesiastes 8:5, 6; Jeremiah 8:7–10