Proverbs 13:23 (BSB)

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:23: See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: Much food is in the tillage of the poor, the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:23: Much food is in the tillage of the poor,.... The poor are generally employed in tilling land; from whose labours in ploughing and sowing much food arises to men, bread to the eater, and seed to the sower: or a poor farmer, that has but a small farm, a few acres of land, to till; yet through his diligence and industry, with the blessing of...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:23: The laboring poor prosper more than those who injudiciously or wickedly strive, by fraud and violence, to supersede the necessity of lawful labor.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 13:23: Much food [is in] the fallow ground of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for lack of judgment. (l) God blesses the labour of the poor, and consumes their goods who are negligent, because they think they have enough.