Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.
New American Standard Bible
But the one who gathers
King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Holman Bible
but whoever earns it through labor
International Standard Version
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but whoever works diligently increases his prosperity.
A Conservative Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.
American Standard Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.
Amplified
Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles,
But he who gathers gradually by [honest] labor will increase [his riches].
Bible in Basic English
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Darby Translation
Wealth gotten by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase it.
Julia Smith Translation
Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.
King James 2000
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.
Modern King James verseion
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be taken away, but he who gathers by hand shall increase.
NET Bible
Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
New Heart English Bible
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
The Emphasized Bible
Wealth gotten by greed, diminisheth, but, he that gathereth by little, increaseth.
Webster
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.
World English Bible
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
Themes
Business life » Fidelity » Industry
Industry » Leads to » Increase of substance
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Get, by vanity
Vanity » Wealth gotten by vanity
Vanity » Wealth gotten by, diminishes
Virtues » Industry » Commended
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 13:11
Prayers for Proverbs 13:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Lives Righteously
10 Among the proud there is ever strife; but among those that do all things with advisement, there is wisdom. 11 Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase. 12 Hope deferred grieveth the heart; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:21
The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Job 15:28-29
Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.
Job 20:15
The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.
Job 20:19-22
And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
Job 27:16-17
Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,
Psalm 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
Proverbs 13:22-23
which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 27:23-27
See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man is greatly to be commended, but he that maketh too much haste for to be rich, shall not be unguilty.
Proverbs 28:22
He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.
Jeremiah 17:11
The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.
Habakkuk 2:6-7
But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?"
James 5:1-5
Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.