23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

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23 An unplowed field produces food for the poor,
    but injustice sweeps it away.

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23 (A)Much food is in the [a]fallow ground of the poor,
And for lack of justice there is [b]waste.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:23 uncultivated
  2. Proverbs 13:23 Lit. what is swept away