Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall have increase.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
In Context
10By pride cometh only contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Cross References
Job 15:28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 20:19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.
Psalms 128:2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.
Proverbs 28:8He that augmenteth his substance by usury and increase, gathereth it for him that hath 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 →