Proverbs 13:11

“Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished, etc.] 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 a wicked way very seldom lasts long; it lessens by little and little till it comes to nothingf367; see (<241711>Jeremiah 17:11); and sometimes very quickly and suddenly, all at once; thus that mass of riches which the church of Rome has got together by her vain and wicked practices, by her idolatry, pardons, and…”

“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.”

“By vanity - literally, “by a breath,” i. e., by a windfall, or sudden stroke of fortune, not by honest labor. The general meaning seems to be that the mere possession of riches is as nothing; they come and go, but the power to gain by skill of hand (“labor”) is everything. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Vanity - By wicked practices. Proverbs 13:12”

“Wealth: Pro 10:2, Pro 20:21, Pro 28:8; Job 15:28, Job 15:29, Job 20:15, Job 20:19-22, Job 27:16, Job 27:17; Ecc 5:14; Jer 17:11; Hab 2:6, Hab 2:7; Jam 5:1-5 he: Pro 13:22, Pro 13:23, Pro 20:21, Pro 27:23-27; Psa 128:2 by labour: Heb. with the hand Proverbs 13:12”

“11 Wealth by means of fraud always becomes less; But he that increaseth it by labour gains always more. We punctuate הון־מהבל (with Makkeph, as in Ven. 1521, Antw. 1582, Frank.-on-the-Oder 1595, Gen. 1618, Leyden 1662), not הון מהבל (as other editions, and e.g., also Lwenstein); for the meaning is not that the wealth becomes less by הבל (Targ., but not the Syr.), or that it is less than הבל (Umbreit), but הון־מהבל is one idea: wealth proceeding from הבל; but הבל tub ;הב, properly a breath (Theod. ἀπὸ ἀτμοῦ or ἀτμίδος), then appearance without reality (Aquila, ἀπὸ ματαιότητος), covers itself here by that which we call swindle, i.e., by morally unrestrained fraudulent and deceitful…”