Proverbs 16:26 (WEB)
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“But we praise every creature of God, and yet prefer leanness to corpulence, abstinence to luxury, fasting to fulness.“He that laboureth laboureth for himself, and he is eager to his own destruction.”” — editor's note: Prov. xvi. 26. Sept.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VII.6Conference VII
“Nor should we be drawn away from being intent on this watchfulness through a dangerous despair, for “in every one who is anxious there is abundance, for he who is pleasant and free from grief will be in want;” and again: “a man in grief labours for himself, and forcibly brings about his own destruction.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiv. 23; xvi. 26 (LXX.).
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Tertullian
“To the corrupting power of riches He made the enormity of edacity antecedent, for which riches themselves are the procuring agents.” — editor's note: Comp. Eccles. vi. 7; Prov. xvi. 26. (The LXX. render the latter quotation very differently from the Eng. ver. or the Vulg.)
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.6.