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Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

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11 Wealth hastily gotten[a] will dwindle,
    but he who gathers little by little will increase it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:11 Gk Vg: Heb from vanity

17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man,
    but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

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21 An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning
    will in the end not be blessed.

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