Proverbs 11:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ The people curse those who hold back grain, but a blessing is on the head of those who sell it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ The people curse him who holds back grain [when the public needs it], but a blessing [from God and man] is upon the head of him who sells it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Common English Bible

²⁶ People curse those who hoard grain, but they bless those who sell it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Whoever hides away grain shall be cursed among the people. But a blessing is upon the head of those who sell it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

Proverbs 11:26 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 47:14

Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Job 29:13

The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 24:24

Whoever says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.