Proverbs 28:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread,.... Or, "shall he filled" or "satisfied with bread" s: shall have bread enough, and to spare; provisions of all sorts, and in great plenty;

Proverbs 12:11;

but he that followeth, after vain [persons]; empty idle persons; keeps company and spends his time with them, when he should be about the business of his calling:

shall have poverty enough; or be "filled with [it]" t; he shall be exceeding poor, reduced to the utmost distress, be clothed in rags and destitute of daily food.

s ישבע לחם "saturabitur pane", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Schultens. t ישבע "satiabitur", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "saturabitur", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Schultens.

Proverbs 28:19

19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.