
Text -- Proverbs 13:11 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 13:11
By wicked practices.
JFB: Pro 13:11 - -- Or, "nothingness," that is, which is vain or useless to the public (as card playing or similar vices).
Or, "nothingness," that is, which is vain or useless to the public (as card playing or similar vices).

(Compare Margin), little by little, laboriously.
Clarke -> Pro 13:11
Clarke: Pro 13:11 - -- Wealth gotten by vanity - Wealth that is not the result of honest industry and hard labor is seldom permanent. All fortunes acquired by speculation,...
Wealth gotten by vanity - Wealth that is not the result of honest industry and hard labor is seldom permanent. All fortunes acquired by speculation, lucky hits, and ministering to the pride or luxury of others, etc., soon become dissipated. They are not gotten in the way of Providence, and have not God’ s blessing, and therefore are not permanent.
TSK -> Pro 13:11
TSK: Pro 13:11 - -- Wealth : Pro 10:2, Pro 20:21, Pro 28:8; Job 15:28, Job 15:29, Job 20:15, Job 20:19-22, Job 27:16, Job 27:17; Ecc 5:14; Jer 17:11; Hab 2:6, Hab 2:7; Ja...

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Barnes -> Pro 13:11
Barnes: Pro 13:11 - -- By vanity - literally, "by a breath,"i. e., by a windfall, or sudden stroke of fortune, not by honest labor. The general meaning seems to be th...
By vanity - literally, "by a breath,"i. e., by a windfall, or sudden stroke of fortune, not by honest labor. The general meaning seems to be that the mere possession of riches is as nothing; they come and go, but the power to gain by skill of hand ("labor") is everything.
Poole -> Pro 13:11
Poole: Pro 13:11 - -- By vanity by vain, or deceitful, or wicked practices. Shall be diminished , because the curse of God attends upon it.
By labour by diligence in an...
By vanity by vain, or deceitful, or wicked practices. Shall be diminished , because the curse of God attends upon it.
By labour by diligence in an honest calling.
Haydock -> Pro 13:11
Haydock: Pro 13:11 - -- Haste. Hebrew, "by vanity," and injustice. Those who become rich on a sudden fall under suspicion, as a Roman objected to Sylla, who had inherited ...
Haste. Hebrew, "by vanity," and injustice. Those who become rich on a sudden fall under suspicion, as a Roman objected to Sylla, who had inherited nothing. (Plut.[Plutarch?]) ---
By little. Hebrew, "he that gathereth by labour, (Septuagint, piety) shall increase." (Protestants) (Haydock)
Gill -> Pro 13:11
Gill: Pro 13:11 - -- Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished,.... In an unjust or unlawful way, either by robbery and theft, as Aben Ezra; or by fraud and tricking, b...
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished,.... In an unjust or unlawful way, either by robbery and theft, as Aben Ezra; or by fraud and tricking, by overreaching and circumventing others; or by vain practices, as by cards or dice, and by stage playing and the like; or by curious and illicit arts, as necromancy, judiciary astrology, and such like things; whatever is gotten in a wicked way very seldom lasts long; it lessens by little and little till it comes to nothing f; see Jer 17:11; and sometimes very quickly and suddenly, all at once; thus that mass of riches which the church of Rome has got together by her vain and wicked practices, by her idolatry, pardons, and indulgences, will in one hour come to nought, Rev 18:17;
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase, or "that gathereth by the hand" or "in it" g; by hand labour in an honest way, or with the diligent hand, which maketh rich; who labours with his hand and gets by in sufficient to support himself and his family, and to give to the necessities of others; who does not lay it up in coffers, but keeps it in his hand to distribute; such generally thrive and flourish: some copies read it, "he that gathereth,
"he that gathereth and giveth to the poor shall increase in substance.''

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MHCC -> Pro 13:11
MHCC: Pro 13:11 - --Wealth gotten by dishonesty or vice, has a secret curse, which will speedily waste it.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 13:11
Matthew Henry: Pro 13:11 - -- 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, an...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 13:11
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 13:11 - --
11 Wealth by means of fraud always becomes less;
But he that increaseth it by labour gains always more.
We punctuate הון־מהבל (with Makk...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 13:1-25
Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16
Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...
