John Trapp on Proverbs 14:23

Verſ. 23. In all labour there is profit.] In all honeſt labour: for there are that doe wickedly with both hands earneſtly; and what profit have ſuch of all their labour, &c. Eccleſ. 1.3. doe they not take pains to goe to Hell? There are alſo that labour about [non-Latin text not transcribed], toylſome toys, that pay not for the pains, that doe magno conatu magnas nugas agere. Such a one was Paleottus Arch-biſhop of Bonony, who made a great book of the ſhadow of Chriſts Body in a [illegible: 2 letters]ndon; and it was commented upon by the Profeſſour there. This Ariſtotle calls laborious loſſe of time. The Apoſtle calls upon men to labour, working with their hands the thing that is good: ſo ſhall they have, [non-Latin text not transcribed] not for their own uſes only, but alſo to give to him that needeth, Epheſ. 4.28.

But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury] Great talkers are doe-littles, for moſt part, Corniculas citiùs in Africa, quam res rationeſque ſolidas in Turriani ſcriptis invenies, ſaith one, Turrian, was a very wordy man, yee cannot finde matter for words in him. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. The Athenians fought againſt Philip with words and meſſages, ſaith one: but Rabſhekah could tell Hezekiah, that warre was to be made (ſo is work to be done) not with words, and the talk of the lips, but with counſel and ſtrength, Iſa. 36.5. And why ſtand you looking upon one another? get you down to Aegypt, ſaid Jacob to his ſons, Gen. 42.1.