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Proverbs 12:11
One who works his land will have plenty of bread, But one who pursues worthless things lacks sense.
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Proverbs 27:23-27
Know well the condition of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds;For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.When the grass disappears, the new growth is seen, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,The lambs will be for your clothing, And the goats will bring the price of a field,And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, For the food of your household, And sustenance for your attendants.
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Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise people will be wise, But a companion of fools will suffer harm.
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Proverbs 23:20-21
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.
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Luke 15:12-17
The younger of them said to his father,‘ Father, give me the share of the estate that is coming to me.’ And so he divided his wealth between them.And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living.Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began doing without.So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.And he longed to have his fill of the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving him anything.But when he came to his senses, he said,‘ How many of my father’s hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here from hunger!
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Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean; But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.