Labor is Profitable - Talk is Cheap

Labor is Profitable but Talk is Cheap

Proverbs 14:23 (KJV 1900)

23 In all labour there is profit:

But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

So what is labor? What types of Labor are out there - What is the profit?

Study

Service

Chores / Work

Care for the things we have

Prayer

Working, without talking, will make men rich: In all labour of the head, or of the hand, there is profit; it will turn to some good account or other. Industrious people are generally thriving people[1]

It is true in the affairs of our souls; those that take pains in the service of God, that strive earnestly in prayer, will find profit in it. But if men’s religion runs all out in talk and noise, and their praying is only the labour of the lips, they will be spiritually poor, and come to nothing.

[1] Henry, M. (1994). Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible: complete and unabridged in one volume (p. 986). Peabody: Hendrickson.

King James Version Chapter 14

penury

The Abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament מַחְסוֹר, מַחְסֹר

need = thing needed. 2. lack, want. 3. in gen., need, poverty