Proverbs 13:25
Good News Translation
The righteous have enough to eat, but the wicked are always hungry.

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous have enough to satisfy their appetite, but the belly of the wicked is empty.

Contemporary English Version
If you live right, you will have plenty to eat; if you don't live right, you will go away empty.

New American Bible
When the just eat, their hunger is appeased; but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.

righteous

Psalm 34:10 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Psalm 37:3,16,18,19 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Hebrews 13:5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

the belly

Proverbs 6:11 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 24:34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Deuteronomy 28:48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Context
A Father's Discipline
24He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes. 25The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.
Cross References
Luke 15:14
And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that country: and he began to be in want.

Psalm 34:10
The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Psalm 103:5
Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's.

Psalm 132:15
Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

Proverbs 10:3
The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.

Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.

Proverbs 13:24
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