Proverbs 13:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: But he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Wealth [not earned but] won in haste or unjustly or from the production of things for vain or detrimental use [such riches] will dwindle away, but he who gathers little by little will increase [his riches].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Riches gotten quickly will dwindle, but those who acquire them gradually become wealthy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.

Proverbs 13:11 Cross References

Proverbs 20:21

An estate quickly acquired in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Proverbs 28:20

The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.

Job 20:15

They swallow down riches and vomit them up again; God casts them out of their bellies.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.

Proverbs 13:10

By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.