Proverbs 13:11

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• Proverbs 20:21
  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
• Proverbs 10:2
  Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• James 5:1-5
  ¹ Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.¹ Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. ⁴ Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Proverbs 28:8
  He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Proverbs 27:23-27
  ²³ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. ²⁴ For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? ²⁵ The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. ²⁶ The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.²³ Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; ²⁴ for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation. ²⁵ When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered, ²⁶ the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
• Proverbs 13:22-23
  ²² A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. ²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous. ²³ Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
• Job 27:16-17
  ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; ¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, ¹⁷ what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
• Proverbs 28:20
  A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Proverbs 28:22
  He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
• Habakkuk 2:6-7
  ⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! ⁷ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?⁶ Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’ ⁷ Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

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