◄ Proverbs 11:26 {27} ►
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Good News Translation
People curse someone who hoards grain, waiting for a higher price, but they praise the one who puts it up for sale.

New Revised Standard Version
The people curse those who hold back grain, but a blessing is on the head of those who sell it.

Contemporary English Version
Charge too much for grain, and you will be cursed; sell it at a fair price, and you will be praised.

New American Bible
Whoever hoards grain, the people curse, but blessings are on the head of one who distributes it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

that withholdeth

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

blessing

Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

Context
Dishonest Scales
…25He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell. 26Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.27He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:6
And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

Proverbs 24:24
They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

Proverbs 11:25
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