The contrast is carried on between the life of industry and that of the idle, “vain person” of the “baser sort” (the “Raca” of Matthew 5:22). We might have expected that the second clause would have ended with such words as “shall lack bread,” but the contrast goes deeper. Idleness leads to a worse evil than that of hunger.
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Proverbs 12:11
11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.