Proverbs 13:23

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

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WEBBE

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

BSB

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

KJV

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

ASV

Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.

BBE

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

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Matthew Henry · Verse 23

The poor, yet industrious, thrive, though in a homely manner, while those who have great riches are often brought to poverty for want of judgment.

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