Proverbs 13:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Wealth won quickly dwindles away, but gathered little by little, it grows.

Cross References

Job 20:15

The riches he swallowed he shall vomit up; God shall make his belly disgorge them.

Psalm 128:2

What your hands provide you will enjoy; you will be blessed and prosper:

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but justice saves from death.

Proverbs 13:10

The stupid sow discord by their insolence, but wisdom is with those who take counsel.

Proverbs 13:12

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

Proverbs 20:21

Possessions greedily guarded at the outset will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 21:6

Trying to get rich by lying is chasing a bubble over deadly snares.

Proverbs 28:20

The trustworthy will be richly blessed; but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

Misers hurry toward wealth, not knowing that want is coming toward them.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever amasses wealth by interest and overcharge gathers it for the one who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

As they came forth from their mother’s womb, so again shall they return, naked as they came, having nothing from their toil to bring with them.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.