Proverbs 13:11

World English Bible (2000)

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: 24 for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations. 25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. 26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. 27 There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing 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 you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. 20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights. 21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on 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 for the righteous. 23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 Won't 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, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?' 7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

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