¹⁹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' shall have poverty enough.

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' is void of understanding.

⁴ And they gave him threescore and ten `pieces' of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

²⁰ Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe `a man' with rags.

²³ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, `And' look well to thy herds:

²⁴ For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations?

²⁵ The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.

²⁶ The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;

²⁷ And `there will be' goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of `thy' substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

¹³ And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

¹⁷ But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.