Verse List for PROV 14:23

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OET (OET-RV) Hard work results in a profit, ⇔ ^ but words from lips only lead to poverty.

OET-LV In_all hard _labour profit it _is and_message _of lips is_only to_lack.

ULT With all toil is profit, ⇔ but the word of lips, is only for lack.

UST If people work hard, they will gain from it, ⇔  but if people only talk, they will remain poor.

BSB & MSB There is profit in all labor, ⇔  but mere talk leads only to poverty.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB In all hard work there is profit, ⇔  but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

NET In all hard work there is profit, ⇔ but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

LSV In all labor there is advantage,
And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.

FBV There's profit in hard work, but just talking leads to poverty.

T4T ⇔  If you work hard, you will ◄accomplish something good/get a good income►, ⇔  but if all you do is to talk and not work, you will remain poor.

LEB • In all toil, there is profit,
• but the talk[fn] of lips leads only to poverty.

BBE In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

Moff In all labour there is profit: ⇔  mere talk only tends to penury.

JPS In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

ASV In all labor there is profit; ⇔ But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

DRA In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

YLT In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.

Drby In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to want.

RV In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
(In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth/tends only to penury.)

SLT In all labor will be profit: and the word of the lips only to want.

Wbstr In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

KJB-1769 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
(In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth/tends only to penury.)

KJB-1611 In all labour there is profit: but the talke of the lippes tendeth onely to penury.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps In euery labour there is some profite: but vayne wordes bryng foorth onely penurie.
(In every labour there is some profite: but vain words bring forth only penurie.)

Gnva In all labour there is abundance: but the talke of the lippes bringeth onely want.
(In all labour there is abundance: but the talk of the lips bringeth/brings only want.)

Cvdl Diliget labor bryngeth riches, but where many vayne wordes are, truly there is scarcenesse.
(Diliget labour bringeth/brings riches, but where many vain words are, truly there is scarceness.)

Wycl abundaunce `schal be in ech good werk. Sotheli where ful many wordis ben, there nedynesse is ofte.
(abundance shall be in each good work. Truly where full many words been, there neediness is ofte.)

Luth Wo man arbeitet, da ist genug; wo man aber mit Worten umgeht, da ist Mangel.
(Where man works(v), there is enough; where man but with words umgeht, there is shortage.)

ClVg In omni opere erit abundantia; ubi autem verba sunt plurima, ibi frequenter egestas.
(In all by_work will_be abundance; where however words are many_(things), there frequently poverty.)

UHB בְּ⁠כָל־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מוֹתָ֑ר וּ⁠דְבַר־שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם אַךְ־לְ⁠מַחְסֽוֹר׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐν παντὶ μεριμνῶντι ἔνεστι περισσόν, ὁ δὲ ἡδὺς καὶ ἀνάλγητος ἐν ἐνδείᾳ ἔσται.

BrTr With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want.