SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:23
¶ En toda labor hay fruto; mas el hablar y no hacer, empobrece.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:23
Verse 23. In all labour there is profit ] If a man work at his trade, he gains by it; if he cultivate the earth, it will yield an increase; and in proportion as he labours, so will be his profit: but he who talks much labours little. And a man words is seldom a man of deeds. Less talk and more work, is one of our own ancient advices.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. In all labour there is profit , etc.] Or “abundance” f406 ; much is got by it, food, raiment, riches, wealth, wisdom, honour; either with the labour of the hands or head, and nothing is to be got without labour; and he that is laborious in his calling, whether it be by manual operation, working with his hands that which is good; or by hard study, much reading, and constant meditation, is like to gain much for his own use and the good of others; but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury ; or “want” f407 , of food and raiment, the common necessaries of life; a man that spends his time in idle talk, boasting of what he can do and does, and yet does nothing, is in a fair way to come to beggary: so all talk about wisdom, and knowledge, and religion, without making use of the proper means of improvement, tends to the poverty of the mind; and generally they are most empty of knowledge, natural or spiritual, that talk and brag most of it; empty casks make the greatest sound; good discourse, wholesome words, sound doctrine, thoroughly digested, tend indeed to edification, to the enriching of the mind; but vain words, the enticing words of men’s wisdom; logomachies, striving about words to no profit; and all great swelling words of vanity, which are all mere lip labour; they tend to spiritual poverty and leanness of soul.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 23 - Labour of the head, or of the hand, will turn to some good account. But if men's religion runs all out in talk and noise, they will come to nothing.
Original Hebrew
בכל 3605 עצב 6089 יהיה 1961 מותר 4195 ודבר 1697 שׂפתים 8193 אך 389 למחסור׃ 4270
