Proverbs 13:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

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  • 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 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 ¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 ¶ A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 ¶ He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty 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] to every generation? 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field. 27 And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall 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 labour of thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked 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 just. 23 ¶ Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end 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 to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

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  • Prov 10:4-5
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    4 ¶ He becometh poor that dealeth [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.

  • 10 ¶ Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised [is] wisdom.

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    23 ¶ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.

    24 ¶ The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] 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 [is] also vanity.

    11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?

    12 The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

    13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

    14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

  • 8 ¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

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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 innocent.

  • 7 ¶ There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.

  • 4 ¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

  • 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • 24 ¶ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

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    15 ¶ The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

    16 ¶ The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

  • 11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

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

    6 ¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

  • 21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

  • 16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.

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    28 ¶ He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

    29 ¶ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.

  • 11 ¶ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.

  • 21 ¶ An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  • 4 ¶ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

  • 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].

  • 22 ¶ He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

  • 26 ¶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

  • 12 ¶ Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.

  • 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

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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 just.

    23 ¶ Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.

  • 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

  • 6 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

  • 17 ¶ He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • 15 ¶ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • 18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

  • 21 ‹So› [is] ‹he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.›

  • 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

  • 27 ¶ The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.

  • 11 ¶ Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

  • 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  • 11 ¶ The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

  • 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].

  • 6 ¶ In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.