Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

耕种自己田地的，必得饱食；追随虚浮的，却是无知。

耕种自己田地的，必得饱食；追求虚浮的，却是无知。

耕种自己田地的，必得饱食；追求虚浮的，却是无知。

努力耕耘者丰衣足食；追求虚荣者愚不可及。

耕种自己田地的，也有充足的粮食；追求虚幻的，实在无知。

耕耘自己土地的，饱享粮食；追求空虚之事的，缺乏心智。

耕種自己田地的，必得飽食；追隨虛浮的，卻是無知。

耕種自己田地的，必得飽食；追求虛浮的，卻是無知。

耕種自己田地的，必得飽食；追求虛浮的，卻是無知。

努力耕耘者豐衣足食；追求虛榮者愚不可及。

耕種自己田地的，也有充足的糧食；追求虛幻的，實在無知。

耕種自己田地的必喫飽飯；追逐空洞洞事的必缺少食糧。

耕耘自己土地的，飽享糧食；追求空虛之事的，缺乏心智。

力其田者足食、從虛浮者無知、

事耕耘者、得果腹、從虛誕者、缺智慧。

耕己田者得飽食、從閑蕩人者乏慧心、

Those who farm their land will have plenty of food. But those who chase dreams have no sense.

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies has no sense.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

One who works his land will have plenty of bread, But one who pursues worthless things lacks sense.

He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, But he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain[ persons is] void of understanding.

The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”

Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox come abundant harvests.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.

For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach— and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

“ Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,

I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites.

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.

They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers.

You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.

My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.If they say,“ Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul;let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

“ Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away.