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11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Proverbs 13:11

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Matthew Henry

(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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