18 As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit, so workers who protect their employer's interests will be rewarded.

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.