“The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 13 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.