Where no oxen are, the [a]trough is clean;
But much increase comes by the strength of an ox.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:4 manger or feed trough

For it is written in the law of Moses, (A)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? 10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that (B)he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 (C)If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

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

Israel Did Not Accept Correction

“Also I gave you [a]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(A)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:6 Hunger

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