Proverbs 1:19

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Summary

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Every

Taketh

Job 31:39

Ecclesiastes 5:13

General references

Proverbs 1:13

Bible References

Every

A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

And Joab saith to the man who is declaring it to him, 'And lo, thou hast seen -- and wherefore didst thou not smite him there to the earth -- and on me to give to thee ten silverlings and one girdle?'

And Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God, saith, 'Lo, my lord hath spared Naaman this Aramaean, not to receive from his hand that which he brought; Jehovah liveth; surely if I have run after him, then I have taken from him something.'

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

saying, 'Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Taketh

If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

General references

Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,