Proverbs 13:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

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  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds. 24 For riches are not forever; does a crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. 27 And you will have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your maidens.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He has 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 heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build; 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save anything of what he desired. 21 None of his food shall be left; therefore no one shall look for his goods. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just. 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets 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 who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you shall be for plunder to them?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

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  • Prov 10:4-5
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    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

    5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Prov 13:10
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    10By pride comes only contention, but with the well advised is wisdom.

  • Prov 14:23-24
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    23In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

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

    11When goods increase, they who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

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

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

    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

    20A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Prov 23:4
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    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Prov 11:24
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    24There is one who scatters, and yet increases; and there is one who withholds more than is right, and it leads to poverty.

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

    16The labor of the righteous tends to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets 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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    5The thoughts of the diligent lead only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to poverty.

    6The accumulation of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vanity to those who seek death.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

    29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 12:11
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    11He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Ps 62:10
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    10Trust not in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

  • Prov 28:22
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  • Prov 16:26
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    26He who labors, labors for himself, for his mouth craves it of him.

  • Prov 13:12
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    12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

  • Prov 1:19
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  • Prov 13:22-23
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    22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Job 15:31
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    31Let not him who is deceived trust in vanity, for emptiness shall be his recompense.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full, with toil and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9What profit does he have who works in that which he labors?

  • Prov 12:27
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    27The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

  • Job 20:18
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    18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the income of the wicked is trouble.