Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained by fraud quickly disappears, but those who gather bit by bit prosper.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
In Context
10Pride only causes conflict; but those who take advice are wise.
12Hope that's delayed makes you feel sick, but a wish that comes true revives you.
Cross References
Job 15:28But their cities will become desolate; they will live in abandoned houses that are crumbling into ruins.
Job 20:19For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.
Psalms 128:2You will eat what your own hands have produced. You will be happy and do well.
Proverbs 13:22Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner's wealth is saved for those who live right.
Proverbs 21:6Money made by lies is like smoke in the wind—a chase that ends in death.
Proverbs 28:8Anyone who gets rich through charging interest and profiteering is only storing it up for someone who is kind to 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 →