Proverbs 13:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.

Proverbs 13:11 Cross References

Job 20:15

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

Psalm 128:2

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

Proverbs 10:2

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

Proverbs 13:10

By insolence the heedless make strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Proverbs 13:12

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

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.

Proverbs 21:6

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

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.