Verse 11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [And] look well to thy herds: 24 For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations? 25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in. 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field; 27 And [there will be] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. 20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. 21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous. 23 Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges! [ 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps; 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.