Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
In Context
10Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Cross References
Job 15:28And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Psalms 128:2For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
Proverbs 28:8He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:11
10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. Note, 1. Foolish pride is the great make-bate. Would you know whence come wars and fightings? They come from this root of bitterness. Whatever hand other lusts may have in contention (passion, envy, covetousness), pride has the great hand; it is its pride that it will itself sow discord and needs no help. Pride makes men impatient of contradiction in either their opinions or their desires, impatient of competition and rivalship, impatient of… Read the whole commentary →