Proverbs 12:11 {12}
Good News Translation
A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat, but it is stupid to waste time on useless projects.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Contemporary English Version
Hard working farmers have more than enough food; daydreamers are nothing more than stupid fools.

New American Bible
Those who till their own land have food in plenty, but those who engage in idle pursuits lack sense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

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

Proverbs 14:4,23 Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest. . . .

Proverbs 27:27 Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.

Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's. . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

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Proverbs 1:10 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 4:14,15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. . . .

Proverbs 6:32 He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:

Proverbs 7:7 Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,

Proverbs 9:6,13 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot. . . .

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Judges 9:4 And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and vagabonds, and they followed him.

Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

John 2:8 And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.

Titus 1:10,11 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision. . . .

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
10He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish. 11He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.12The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:32
He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:

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

Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.

Proverbs 12:10
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