Proverbs 20:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:10 : 10 There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved. 8 And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

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    15Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, `are' lips of knowledge.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    10Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

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

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

    8The ransom of a man's life `are' his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.

  • Ezek 7:12-13
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    73%

    12Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath `is' unto all its multitude.

    13For the seller to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living `is' their life, For the vision `is' unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth strengthen his life.

  • 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.

    14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

  • Prov 25:14
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    14Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, `Is' a man boasting himself in a false gift.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread.

  • Prov 14:23-24
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    23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

    24The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools `is' folly.

  • Prov 19:1-2
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    1Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

    2Also, without knowledge the soul `is' not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

  • Prov 27:1
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    1Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Prov 21:6
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    6The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

  • Job 15:31
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    31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

  • Prov 20:21
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    21An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

    3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

  • Job 20:21
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    21There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'

  • Job 28:15
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    15Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this `is' vanity, and it `is' an evil disease.

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    14For better `is' her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 28:20
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    20A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • Jer 17:11
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    11A 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.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

  • Prov 23:23
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    23Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

  • Job 20:18
    69%

    18He is giving back `what' he laboured for, And doth not consume `it'; As a bulwark `is' his exchange, and he exults not.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17Sweet to a man `is' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with' gravel.

  • Prov 21:20
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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.

  • Eccl 1:2
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    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

  • Job 34:9
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    9For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

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    6Do 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?

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    13Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

  • Prov 11:26
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    26Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing `is' for the head of him who is selling.

  • Prov 25:27
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    27The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.