18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 27:18

Commentary on Proverbs 27:18

(Read Proverbs 27:18)

Though a calling be laborious and despised, yet those who keep to it, will find there is something to be got by it. God is a Master who has engaged to honour those who serve him faithfully.