Read Proverbs 12:11  Once again, our verse has two opposites: he who tills the land and he who follows vain people.  Tilling the land means to plow the soil and to grow crops.  Back in Solomon’s day, almost everyone was farmer.   Today many people work in factories or are salesmen or work in an office.  But we all like to eat food!   So we are really close to farmers.  Farming is hard, hot work, and Solomon said here in verse 11 that the farmer who does the hard work would be satisfied.  Be sure, no one likes to work hard.  But when you work hard and you finally see the vegetables and fruit being harvested, it is fun and rewarding.  You are satisfied.  But, if you are like the vain person, you just don’t get it.  Solomon said that you are void of understanding.  We all want to eat the vegetables and fruit, but some of us just don’t understand that we have to work in order to get to eat the vegetables and fruit.  May be we don’t have to work, but our fathers and mothers do!  They work hard at the office or the store or the greenhouse in order to buy food for us to eat.  Then our mother has to work hard to cook the food that our father has paid for.   Someday soon, we will have to be ready to do those chores in order for our family to eat.  So we should be learning to work now so that when we are grown up we will be a hard worker and not a lazy, vain person.  Learn now and be ready when you grow up!