Proverbs 11:24-31

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁴ Some give freely, yet grow all the richer;
    others withhold what is due, and only suffer want.
²⁵ A generous person will be enriched,
    and one who gives water will get water.
²⁶ The people curse those who hold back grain,
    but a blessing is on the head of those who sell it.
²⁷ Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor,
    but evil comes to the one who searches for it.
²⁸ Those who trust in their riches will wither,^[a]
    but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.
²⁹ Those who trouble their households will inherit wind,
    and the fool will be servant to the wise.
³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
    but violence^[b] takes lives away.
³¹ If the righteous are repaid on earth,
    how much more the wicked and the sinner!