Proverbs 28:19 (BSB)

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:19: Note, 1. Those that are diligent in their callings take the way to live comfortably: He that tills his land, and tends his shop, and minds his business, whatever it is, he shall have plenty of bread, of that which is necessary for himself and his family and with which he may be charitable to the poor; he shall eat the labour of his hands. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:19: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread,.... Or, "shall he filled" or "satisfied with bread" (s): shall have bread enough, and to spare; provisions of all sorts, and in great plenty; See Gill on Pro 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:19: (Compare Pro 10:4; Pro 20:4). vain persons--idle, useless drones, implying that they are also wicked (Pro 12:11; Psa 26:4).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:19: Pro 28:19 19 He who cultivateth his land is satisfied with bread, And he that graspeth after vanities is satisfied with poverty. A variation of Pro 12:11. The pred. here corresponds to its contrast. On רישׁ (here and at Pro 31:7), instead of the more frequent ראשׁ, cf. Pro 10:4.