Proverbs 13:11
Wealth got by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
In Context
10Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
12Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Cross References
Job 15:28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 20:19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;
Psalms 128:2For you shall eat the labour of yours hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
Proverbs 13:22A good man left an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed back and forth of them that seek death.
Proverbs 28:8He that by interest and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity 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 →