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Proverbs 12:11
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Proverbs 12:11
11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
11*Hee that tilleth his land, shall bee satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vaine persons, is void of vnderstanding.
- Chap.28.19.
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Proverbs 12:11
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To satisfy: to fill, content, supply sufficiently, or meet what is required.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Empty, worthless, fruitless, false, or without effect.
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Empty, vacant, lacking, or without effect; as a verb, to empty or make of no effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study19He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
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Open the full verse study23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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Open the full verse study11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
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Open the full verse study2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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Open the full verse study28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Open the full verse study8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
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Open the full verse study6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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Open the full verse study4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
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Open the full verse study7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Open the full verse study19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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Open the full verse study20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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Open the full verse study10¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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Open the full verse study32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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Open the full verse study10For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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Open the full verse study4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
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Open the full verse study13¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
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Open the full verse study16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Open the full verse study4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
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Open the full verse study8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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Open the full verse study23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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Open the full verse study27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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