Proverbs 13:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    4 He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

    5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; [But] he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

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    10 By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.

  • Prov 14:23-24
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    23 In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.

    24 The crown of the wise is their riches; [But] the folly of fools is [only] folly.

  • Eccl 5:10-14
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    10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

    11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

    12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

    14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

    20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

  • Prov 23:4
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    4 Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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    24 There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] only to want.

  • Prov 10:15-16
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    15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

    16 The labor of the righteous [tendeth] to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

  • Jer 17:11
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    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.

  • Prov 21:5-6
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    5 The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty [hasteth] only to want.

    6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

    29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 12:11
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    11 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain [persons] is void of understanding.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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    4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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    10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon] .

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    22 he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

  • Prov 16:26
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    26 The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him [thereto] .

  • Prov 13:12
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    12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,

  • Prov 13:22-23
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    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.

  • Job 15:31
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    31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

  • Prov 12:27
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    27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men [is to] the diligent.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; But the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

  • Job 20:18
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    18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

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