John Trapp on Proverbs 16:26

Verſ. 26. Hee that laboureth, laboureth for himſelf] Hee earns it to eat it, hee gets it with his hands to maintain the life of his hands, as it is therefore alſo called, Iſa. 57.10. Animantis cujuſque vita in fuga eſt, ſaith the Philoſopher; Life will away if not repaired by aliment. Et dii boni; Seneca. quantum hominum unus exercet venter! O what a do there is to provide meat for the belly! There are that make too much adoe, whiles they make it their God, Phil. 3.19. as did that Nabal, Pamphagus, thoſe in St. Pauls time, that ſerved not the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, but their own bellies; and our Abbylubbers, Quorum luxuriae totus non ſufficit orbis; O monachi veſtri ſtomachi, &c. See my common place of Abſtinence.

For his mouth craveth it of him.] Heb. Bows down to him, or upon him; Quippe quam ſuum cogit os. Caſtalio. Sueton. in Tiber. Either as a ſuppliant, or as importunately urgent; The belly hath no ears, neceſſity hath no Law. Maleſuada fames will have it, if it bee to bee had. Druſus, meat being denied him, did eat the very ſtuffings of his bed; but that was not nouriſhment. The ſtomack of man is a monſter, ſaith one; which being contained in ſo little a bulk as the body, is able to conſume and devour all things: and yet is not conſumed of it ſelf, nor deſtroyed by that heat that digeſteth all that comes into it.