Proverbs 28:19
WEB
One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
BSB
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
KJV
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H5647
v — work, serve, till, enslave
Derivation: a primitive root;
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV: × be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
vb — work
עָבַד 290 vb. work, serve
Qal
1. labour, work, do work
2. work for another, serve him by labour
3. serve as subjects
4. serve God
5. serve י׳ with Levitical service
Niph.
1. be tilled, of land
2. dub. cultivated field
Pu. worked
Hiph.
1. compel to labour as slaves
2. make to serve as subjects
3. cause to serve God
Hoph. be led or enticed to serve
H127
n-f — soil
Derivation: from 119;
soil (from its general redness)
KJV: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
n.f — Adamah
אֲדָמָה 224 n.f. ground, land (as tilled)
1. ground (as tilled, yielding sustenance)
2. piece of ground, landed property
3. earth as material substance
4. ground as earth's visible surface
5. land, territory, country
6. whole earth, inhabited earth
7. n. pr. loc. city in Naphtali
H7646
v — sate, fill
Derivation: or שָׂבֵעַ; a primitive root;
to sate, i.e. fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)
KJV: have enough, fill (full, self, with), be (to the) full (of), have plenty of, be satiate, satisfy (with), suffice, be weary of.
vb — be sated
[שָׂבֵעַ], שָׂבַע 96 vb. be sated, satisfied, surfeited
Qal 79
1. be sated (with food), esp. human subj.
2. more gen., be sated, have desire satisfied
3. have in excess, be surfeited with
Niph. Pt. sated
Pi. satisfy
Hiph.
1.
a. satisfy (esp. with material blessings), subj. י׳
b. c. acc. of food pers., י׳ subj.
c. י׳ subj.
d. י׳ subj., c. acc. of beasts
2. enrich
3. sate, glut (with the undesired)
H3899
n-m — food, bread, grain
Derivation: from 3898; See also 1036
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV: (shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
n.m — bread
לֶ֫חֶם 296 n.m. and (rarely) f. bread, food
H7291
v — run after, gone by
Derivation: a primitive root;
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
KJV: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
vb — pursue
רָדַף 141 vb. pursue, chase, persecute
Qal 128
1.
a. pursue
b. lit. put to flight, chase
c. lit., the pursuers
d. chase, hunt
e. pursue
f. fig. persecute, harass
g. pursue, dog
2. fig. follow after, aim to secure
Niph. upon the neck (i.e. closely) we are pursued
Pi. pursue ardently
Pu. it shall be chased away like chaff of the mountains
Hiph. usu. they chased him
H7386
a — empty, worthless
Derivation: or (shorter) רֵק; from 7324;
empty; figuratively, worthless
KJV: emptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man).
adj — empty
[רֵיק], רֵק adj. empty, vain
H7389
n-m — poverty
Derivation: or רֵאשׁ; or רִישׁ; from 7326;
poverty
KJV: poverty.
n.m — poverty
רִישׁ, רֵישׁ, רֵאשׁ n.m. poverty, only Pr
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Verse 19
Proverbs 28:19
Note, 1. Those that are diligent in their callings take the way to live comfortably: He that tills his land, and tends his shop, and minds his business, whatever it is, he shall have plenty of bread, of that which is necessary for himself and his family and with which he may be charitable to the poor; he shall eat the labour of his hands. 2. Those that are idle, and careless, and company-keepers, though they indulge themselves in living (as they think) easily and pleasantly, they take the way to live miserably. He that has land and values himself upon that, but does not till it, but follows after vain persons, drinks with them, joins with them in their frolics and vain sports, and idles away his time with him, he shall have poverty enough, shall be satiated or replenished with poverty (so the word is); he takes those courses which lead so directly to it that he seems to court it, and he shall have his fill of it.