THEOSISProverbs 13:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.
ה֭וֹן מֵהֶ֣בֶל יִמְעָ֑ט וְקֹבֵ֖ץ עַל־יָ֣ד יַרְבֶּֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 20:21The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
- Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
- Prov 28:8He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.
- Jas 5:1Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.
- Jas 5:5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
- Prov 13:22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.
- Prov 13:23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment.
- Job 27:16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,