Keep the Ox and clean the crib

Here we find a wonderful truth made plain by a clear and vivid word picture spoken by the old wise preacher.
Some may consider this a foreign and irrelevant verse of Scripture for today, but there is a life lesson that is taught in this verse that each of us would do well to keep in mind.
A life without the messes of others, may be a clean life…but it is also a very empty life.