Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks 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 work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

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

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

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

“ Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,

I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.

There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.If they say,“ Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.