Proverbs 20:14

Coverdale Bible (1535)

It is naught, It is naught (saye men) whan they haue it, but whan it is gone, they geue it a good worde.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:10 : 10 Is there eny thinge, wherof it maye be sayde: lo, this is new? For it was loge agoo in the tymes yt haue bene before vs.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion. 8 Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I haue good ynough: In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde, that I haue offended.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 And that no man go to farre, ner defraude his brother in bargayninge. For the LORDE is the auenger of all soch thinges, as we haue sayde & testified vnto you afore tyme.

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  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7 Some men are riche, though they haue nothinge: agayne, some me are poore hauynge greate riches.

    8 With goodes euery man delyuereth his life, and the poore wyl not be reproued.

  • Ezek 7:12-13
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    12 The tyme cometh, the daye draweth nye: Who so byeth, let him not reioyce: he that selleth, let him not be sory: for why, Trouble shall come in the myddest off all rest:

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  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13 Yet is there a sore plage, which I haue sene vnder the Sonne (namely) riches kepte to the hurte of him yt hath them in possession.

    14 For oft times they perishe with his greate misery and trouble: and yf he haue a childe, it getteth nothinge.

  • Prov 25:14
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    14 Who so maketh greate boastes & geueth nothinge, is like cloudes & wynde without rayne.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

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    19 These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.

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    13 Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.

  • Prov 14:23-24
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    23 Diliget labor bryngeth riches, but where many vayne wordes are, truly there is scarcenesse.

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    1 Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.

    2 Where no discrecion is, there the soule is not well: and who so is swifte on fote, stombleth hastely.

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    1 Make not thy boost of tomorow, for thou knowest not what maye happen todaye.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11 Hastely gotte goodes are soone spent, but they that be gathered together with the hande, shal increase.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 All is but vanite (sayeth the preacher) all is but playne vanite.

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  • Prov 28:22
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    11 The rich man thynketh him self to be wyse, but the poore that hath vnderstondinge, ca perceaue him wel ynough.

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    21 for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

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    20 A faithfull man is greatly to be commeded, but he that maketh to moch haist for to be riche, shal not be vngiltie.

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    16 But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is euell.

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