Proverbs 16:26 Cross References - LEB

²⁶ The life* of a worker works for him, for his _⌊hunger_⌋* urges him.

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, alone you shall bear it.

²³ In all toil, there is profit, but the _⌊talk_⌋* of lips leads only to poverty.

⁷ All of a man's toil is for his mouth— yet his appetite is never satisfied.

¹¹ and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to _⌊your own business_⌋,* and to work with your hands,* just as we commanded you, ¹² so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

⁸ nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, we were working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, ⁹ not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves as an example to you, so that you may imitate us. ¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat. ¹¹ For we hear that some among you are living irresponsibly, working at nothing, but being busybodies. ¹² Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.