The contrast is the ever recurring one between honest poverty and dishonest wealth. “The new-plowed field of the poor is much food, but there a…

Tillage. — Properly, the newly-made field, on which much labour has been expended. The poor hardworking man, by God’s ble…

Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor
The poor are generally employed in tilling land; from whose labours in plo…

The poor, yet industrious, thrive, though in a simple manner, while those who have great riches are often brought to poverty for lack of judgment.<…