Proverbs 13:11 (BSB)

Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:11

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 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, and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting well incline them to the like sinful ways of spending: Wealth gotten by vanity will be bestowed upon vanity, and then it will be diminished.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 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, 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:11: by vanity--or, "nothingness," that is, which is vain or useless to the public (as card playing or similar vices). gathereth . . . labour--(Compare Margin), little by little, laboriously.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 13:11: Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. (e) That is, goods evil gotten. (f) That is, with his own labour.