Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.
New American Standard Bible
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.
King James Version
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Holman Bible
yet gains more;
another withholds what is right,
only to become poor.
International Standard Version
Those who give freely gain even more; others hold back what they owe, becoming even poorer.
A Conservative Version
There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.
American Standard Version
There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.
Amplified
There is the one who [generously] scatters [abroad], and yet increases all the more;
And there is the one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want and poverty.
Bible in Basic English
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
Darby Translation
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but it tendeth only to want.
Julia Smith Translation
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want
King James 2000
There is one that scatters, and yet increases; and there is one that withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.
Modern King James verseion
There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due comes only to poverty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Some man giveth out his goods, and is richer; but the niggard, having enough, will depart from nothing, and yet is ever in poverty.
NET Bible
One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.
New Heart English Bible
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
The Emphasized Bible
There is who scattereth, and increaseth yet more, and who withholdeth of what is due, only to come to want.
Webster
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
World English Bible
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:24
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Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
23 The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression. 24 There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want. 25 A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 112:9
He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.
Proverbs 19:17
Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
Luke 6:38
'Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'
Deuteronomy 15:10
thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;
Proverbs 11:18
The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.
Haggai 1:6
Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.
Haggai 1:9-11
Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running -- each to his house,
Haggai 2:16-19
From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.
Acts 11:29-30
and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,
2 Corinthians 9:5-11
Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.