Proverbs 14:23
23 In all hard work ▼ there is profit,
but merely talking about it ▼
▼tn Heb “word of lips.” This construct phrase features a genitive of source (“a word from the lips”) or a subjective genitive (“speaking a word”). Talk without work (which produces nothing) is contrasted with labor that produces something.
only brings ▼▼tn The term “brings” does not appear in the Hebrew, but is supplied in the translation for clarity and smoothness.
poverty. ▼▼sn The noun מַחְסוֹר (makhsor, “need; thing needed; poverty”) comes from the verb “to lack; to be lacking; to decrease; to need.” A person given to idle talk rather than industrious work will have needs that go unmet.
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