Proverbs 13:11

A Conservative Version

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:21

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

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Proverbs 28:22

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Psalm 128:2

For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

Job 20:15

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Proverbs 13:10

Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.