Proverbs 13:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days. 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; 24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. 25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. 26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: 27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; 20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. 21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. 22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man. 23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors! 7 Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls. 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

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  • Prov 28:19-20
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  • Prov 13:22-23
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    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

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    6In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.