Proverbs 11:24 {25}
Good News Translation
Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.

New Revised Standard Version
Some give freely, yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due, and only suffer want.

Contemporary English Version
Sometimes you can become rich by being generous or poor by being greedy.

New American Bible
One person is lavish yet grows still richer; another is too sparing, yet is the poorer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

that scattereth

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Proverbs 19:17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

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

Deuteronomy 15:10 But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.

Psalm 112:9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Ecclesiastes 11:1,2,6 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. . . .

Luke 6:38 Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Acts 11:29,30 And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea. . . .

2 Corinthians 9:5-11 Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness. . . .

but

Haggai 1:6,9-11 You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes. . . .

Haggai 2:16-19 When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty. . . .

Context
Dishonest Scales
23Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want. 24The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.25He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 9:6
Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings.

Proverbs 11:23
Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Proverbs 11:25
He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

Proverbs 13:7
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Proverbs 28:27
He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Proverbs 11:23
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