Proverbs 13:23
WEB
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
BSB
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
KJV
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H7230
n-m — abundance
Derivation: from 7231;
abundance (in any respect)
KJV: abundance(-antly), all, × common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), × very (age).
n.m — multitude
רֹב 151 n.m. multitude, abundance, greatness
H400
n-m — food
Derivation: from 398;
food
KJV: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
n.m — food
אֹ֫כֶל 40 n.m. food
H5215
n-m — plowing, freshly plowed land
Derivation: or נִר; from 5214;
properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land
KJV: fallow ground, plowing, tillage.
n.[m.] — the tillable
נִיר n.[m.] the tillable, untilled or fallow ground
H7326
v — be destitute
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be destitute
KJV: lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
vb — be in want
[רוּשׁ or רִישׁ] 24 vb. be in want, poor
Qal young lions are in want and hunger
Hithpō‛lēl one impoverishing himself
H3426
prt — is, are, be
Derivation: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (1961);
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
subst — being
יֵשׁ 137 subst. being, substance, existence
1. substance
2. elsewhere (prop. as a subst. in in the st. c.), it asserts existence, and so corresponds to the verb substantive, is (are, was, were, will be), lit. the being, presence of …
H5595
v — scrape, together, away
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish)
KJV: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
vb — sweep away
[סָפָה] vb. sweep or snatch away, catch up
Qal
1. intrans. be snatched away
2. trans. sweep away
Niph.
1. be swept away, destroyed
2. be caught up, captured
Hiph. I will catch up against them calamities
H3808
adv — not, no
Derivation: or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle;
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
KJV: × before, or else, ere, except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (× as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, surely, as truly as, of a truth, verily, for want, whether, without.
adv — not
לֹא or לוֹא adv. not
H4941
n-m — verdict, sentence, law, justice, right, privilege, style
Derivation: from 8199;
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV: adversary, ceremony, charge, × crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, × worthy, wrong.
n.m — judgment
מִשְׁפָּט 422 n.m. judgment
1. judgment
2. justice, right, rectitude
3. ordinance
4. decision
5. one's (legal) right, privilege, due
6.
a. proper, fitting, measure
b. custom, manner
c. what manner of
d. plan
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Verse 23
Proverbs 13:23
See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: Much food is in the tillage of the poor, the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well. Many make it an excuse for their idleness that they have but a little to work on, a very little to be doing with; but the less compass the field is of the more let the skill and labour of the owner be employed about it, and it will turn to a very good account. Let him dig, and he needs not beg. 2. How a great estate may be ruined by indiscretion: There is that has a great deal, but it is destroyed and brought to nothing for want of judgment, that is, prudence in the management of it. Men over-build themselves or over-buy themselves, keep greater company, or a better table, or more servants, than they can afford, suffer what they have to go to decay and do not make the most of it; by taking up money themselves, or being bound for others, their estates are sunk, their families reduced, and all for want of judgment.