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He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Idleness. Hebrew “the idle.” Their company is seducing.—He that, and so forth This occurs in the Septuagint but not in the Hebrew or the new edit. of S. Jerom. Calmet.—Wine. Or “in taverns.”—Holds. Soldiers have thus been often surprised. Menochius.—“Drunkenness is an incitement to lust and madness, the poison of wisdom.” Saint Ambrose
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