Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Clean

Bible References

Clean

Amos 4:6

“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.

But

Proverbs 13:23

Abundant food is in the fallow (uncultivated) ground of the poor,
But [without protection] it is swept away by injustice.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain [to keep it from eating the grain].” Is it [only] for oxen that God cares?