Where none [a]oxen are, there the crib is empty: but much increase cometh by the strength of the ox.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false record will speak lies.

[b]A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy to him that will understand.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:4 By the ox is meant labor, and by the crib the barn: meaning, without labor there is no profit.
  2. Proverbs 14:6 For the maintenance of his own ambition, and not for God’s glory, as Simon Magus.

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