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Proverbs 14:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 14:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean;
but abundant crops come through the strength of the bull.[a]
Footnotes
- 14:4 If one has no animals, one does not have the burden of keeping the crib full, but without them one will have no crops to fill the barn. Colon B reverses the sense of colon A and also reverses the consonants of bar (“clean”) to rab (“abundant”).
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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