Proverbs 11:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

The people shall curse him who withholds grain, but blessing shall be on the head of him who sells it.

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  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • Prov 24:24 : 24 He who says to the wicked, You are righteous; him the people shall curse, nations shall abhor him.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Gen 42:6 : 6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

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