Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.
Proverbs 13:7 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing: and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition One man considers himself rich, yet has nothing [to keep permanently]; another man considers himself poor, yet has great [and indestructible] riches. [Prov. 12:9; Luke 12:20, 21.] American Standard Version (1901) There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth. Common English Bible Some pretend to be rich but have nothing, while others pretend to be poor, but have great riches. Catholic Public Domain Version One is like the rich, though he has nothing. And another is like the poor, though he has many riches. English Standard Version 2016 One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. |
Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.
Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.
Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor beareth not reprehension.
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.
You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us.
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as needy, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?
Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.
I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.