Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.
New American Standard Bible
But the one who gathers
King James Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Holman Bible
but whoever earns it through labor
International Standard Version
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but whoever works diligently increases his prosperity.
American Standard Version
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.
Amplified
Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles,
But he who gathers gradually by [honest] labor will increase [his riches].
Bible in Basic English
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Darby Translation
Wealth gotten by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase it.
Julia Smith Translation
Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.
King James 2000
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.
Modern King James verseion
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be taken away, but he who gathers by hand shall increase.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.
NET Bible
Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
New Heart English Bible
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
The Emphasized Bible
Wealth gotten by greed, diminisheth, but, he that gathereth by little, increaseth.
Webster
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.
World English Bible
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
Themes
Business life » Fidelity » Industry
Industry » Leads to » Increase of substance
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Get, by vanity
Vanity » Wealth gotten by vanity
Vanity » Wealth gotten by, diminishes
Virtues » Industry » Commended
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 13:11
Prayers for Proverbs 13:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Lives Righteously
10 Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised. 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase. 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Job 15:28-29
And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:19-22
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job 27:16-17
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Psalm 128:2
For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.
Proverbs 13:22-23
A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 28:22
He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Habakkuk 2:6-7
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!
James 5:1-5
Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.