Proverbs 11:26

New International Reader's Version

People ask for bad things to happen to those who store up grain for themselves. But people ask for God’s blessing on those who are willing to sell.

Cross References

Genesis 42:6

Joseph was the governor of the land. He was the one who sold grain to all its people. When Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 47:14

Joseph collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan. People paid it to him for the grain they were buying. And Joseph brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.

Job 29:13

Those who were dying gave me their blessing. I made the hearts of widows sing.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are like crowns on the heads of those who do right. But the trouble caused by what sinners say destroys them.

Proverbs 24:24

A curse will fall on those who say the guilty are not guilty. Nations will ask for bad things to happen to them. People will speak against them.

Proverbs 28:27

Those who give to poor people will have all they need. But those who close their eyes to the poor will receive many curses.