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Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, But he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding.
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Proverbs 27:23-27
Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your herds;For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.When the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,The lambs will provide your clothing, And the goats the price of a field;You shall have enough goats’ milk for your food, For the food of your household, And the nourishment of your maidservants.
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Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
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Proverbs 23:20-21
Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
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Judges 9:4
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him.
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Luke 15:12-17
And the younger of them said to his father,‘ Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.“ But when he came to himself, he said,‘ How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
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Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; But much increase comes by the strength of an ox.