Proverbs 11:26
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He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
In other translations
He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Genesis 42:6And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
- Job 29:13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
- Amos 8:4-64 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, 5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. 6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- Proverbs 24:24He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
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