Proverbs 13:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds, 24 for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation. 25 When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in, 26 the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field. 27 And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build. 20 For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape. 21 “Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous. 23 Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’ 7 Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. 29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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  • Eccl 2:21
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    21An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

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    19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

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    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

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