Proverbs 14:4

WEB

⁴Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

KJV

⁴Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

BSB

⁴Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.

FBV

⁴Without oxen, the manger is empty, but a good harvest comes through the ox's strength.

Extra References

1 Corinthians 9:9-11

⁹For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”Is it for the oxen that God cares, ¹⁰or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. ¹¹If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

Proverbs 13:23

²³An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Amos 4:6

⁶“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.