Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.

Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.

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Proverbs 10:2 The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Proverbs 20:21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

Proverbs 28:8 He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

Job 15:28,29 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps. . . .

Job 20:15,19-22 The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. . . .

Job 27:16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Ecclesiastes 5:14 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Habakkuk 2:6,7 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay? . . .

James 5:1-5 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

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Proverbs 13:22,23 The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just. . . .

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Proverbs 20:21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

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Proverbs 27:23-27 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks: . . .

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Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

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by labour with the hand