Verse 11

The riches of vanitie shal diminish: but he that gathereth with the hand, shall increase them.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An heritage is hastely gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 The treasures of wickednesse profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes. 4 Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He that increaseth his riches by vsurie and interest, gathereth them for him that will be mercifull vnto the poore.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faythfull man shall abound in blessings, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be innocent.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches, and knoweth not, that pouertie shall come vpon him.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes. 24 For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation. 25 The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered. 26 The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of the fielde. 27 And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
  • Job 20:15 : 15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay, 17 He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.
  • Job 20:19-22 : 19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not. 20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods. 22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
  • Prov 13:22-23 : 22 The good man shall giue inheritance vnto his childrens children: and the riches of the sinner is layde vp for the iust. 23 Much foode is in the fielde of the poore: but the fielde is destroyed without discretion.
  • Eccl 5:14 : 14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
  • Hab 2:6-7 : 6 Shall not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say, Ho, he that increaseth that which is not his? howe long? and hee that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay? 7 Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shal stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?
  • Job 15:28-29 : 28 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes, 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.