Proverbs 13:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; 3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, 24 For riches `are' not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. 25 Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. 26 Lambs `are' for thy clothing, And the price of the field `are' he-goats, 27 And a sufficiency of goats' milk `is' for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
  • Job 20:15 : 15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, 17 He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. 20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. 21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth. 23 Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? 7 Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. 29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

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    10 Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

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    4 Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

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  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

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