Proverbs 28:19

19 Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Proverbs 28:19 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 28:19

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread
Or, "shall he filled" or "satisfied with bread" ^F19: shall have bread enough, and to spare; provisions of all sorts, and in great plenty; (See Gill on Proverbs 12:11); but he that followeth, after vain [persons];
empty idle persons; keeps company and spends his time with them, when he should be about the business of his calling: shall have poverty enough;
or be "filled with [it]" ^F20; he shall be exceeding poor, reduced to the utmost distress, be clothed in rags and destitute of daily food.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Mxl ebvy) "saturabitur pane", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Schultens.
F20 (ebvy) "satiabitur", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "saturabitur", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Schultens.

Proverbs 28:19 In-Context

17 If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

18 One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

19 Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

20 The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

21 To show partiality is not good— yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.