11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. …
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11)This shows that riches wear as they are won and woven. 1. That which is won ill will never wear well, for a curse attends it which will waste it, and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting well incline them to the like sinful ways of spending: Wealth gotten by vanity will be bestowed upon vanity, and then it will be diminished . That which is got by such empl…
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