Proverbs 13:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.”
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“Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 13:11 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
- Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
- Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
- Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
- Psalms 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
- Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 20:21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
- Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
- Proverbs 27:23Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
- Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
- Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
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