Proverbs 11:27 {28}
Good News Translation
If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to the one who searches for it.

Contemporary English Version
Try hard to do right, and you will win friends; go looking for trouble, and you will find it.

New American Bible
Those who seek the good seek favor, but those who pursue evil will have evil come upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.

Proverbs 17:11 An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Psalm 7:15,16 He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made. . . .

Psalm 9:15,16 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid. . . .

Psalm 10:2 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 57:6 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Context
Dishonest Scales
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.28He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.…
Cross References
Esther 7:10
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Psalm 7:15
He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Psalm 7:16
His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

Psalm 57:6
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Proverbs 11:26
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