Read Proverbs 12:14  This verse is similar to yesterday’s verse. But actually, it is backwards.  The first half of the verse says that if you say good things and talk right, you will be satisfied with what you have said.  The second half of the verse says that whatever we do with our hands will come back upon us.  In other words, if we work hard with our hands, we will be rewarded with pay for our hard work.  But if we are lazy with our hands, we will also be rewarded with little pay for our work.  Well actually for our lack of work.  We may not like that, but it is fair.  Why should someone who doesn’t work hard be rewarded just the same as someone who does work hard?  Sometimes our government helps people who do not work.  That isn’t good because our government is teaching them to be lazy.  Of course, there are some people who can’t work and really do need help.  They may be sickly or blind or old or handicapped.  Our government should help them.  But someone who can work should work.  Solomon and God says that hard working people should enjoy their pay.  Lazy people should also live with what they have earned – very little or nothing.