Proverbs 11:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

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  • Prov 19:17 : 17 Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.
  • Luke 6:38 : 38 `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'
  • 2 Cor 9:5-9 : 5 Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness. 6 And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; 7 each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, 8 and God `is' able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, 9 (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') 10 and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,
  • Deut 15:10 : 10 thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;
  • Acts 11:29-30 : 29 and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea, 30 which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought `it' home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running -- each to his house, 10 Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase. 11 And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.'
  • Hag 2:16-19 : 16 From that time `one' hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty. 17 I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail -- All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 18 Set `it', I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth `month', even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set `it' to your heart. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne -- from this day I bless.'
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
  • Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it. 2 Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

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  • Prov 13:22-23
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    22A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.

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  • Prov 21:26
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    26All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

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  • Prov 10:4
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    8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

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    27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.

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    25for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'

  • Matt 25:29
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    29for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;

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    22The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

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    22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • Eccl 5:11
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    11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

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    23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

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  • 2 Cor 8:15
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    15according as it hath been written, `He who `did gather' much, had nothing over; and he who `did gather' little, had no lack.'

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    5The purposes of the diligent `are' only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    28Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.

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  • 2 Cor 9:9-10
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    9(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

    10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

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    16Better `is' the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

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    1Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

    2Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

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    37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

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    21The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

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    26for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,

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    16And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

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    23The desire of the righteous `is' only good, The hope of the wicked `is' transgression.

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    6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

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    6In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

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    20A treasure to be desired, and oil, `Is' in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

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    6`In' the house of the righteous `is' abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked -- trouble.

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  • Prov 19:4
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    4Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

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    6Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

  • Prov 16:8
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    8Better `is' a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.