One person is generous ¹  and yet grows more wealthy, ²  but another withholds more than he should ³  and comes to poverty. ⁴ 

biblegateway Pro 11:24

There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.

One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

One person spends freely and yet grows richer, while another holds back what he owes and yet grows poorer.

biblegateway Pro 11:24

One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

bibleoremus Pro 11:24

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

One may spend freely and yet grow richer; another is tight-fisted, yet ends in poverty.

biblegateway Pro 11:24

There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

biblegateway Pro 11:24

One person is generous ¹  and yet grows more wealthy, ²  but another withholds more than he should ³  and comes to poverty. ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “There is one who scatters.” The participle מְפַזֵּר (mÿfazzer, “one who scatters”) refers to charity rather than farming or investments (and is thus a hypocatastasis). Cf. CEV “become rich by being generous”).

² tn Heb “increases.” The verb means that he grows even more wealthy. This is a paradox: Generosity determines prosperity in God’s economy.

³ tn Heb “more than what is right.” This one is not giving enough, but saving for himself.

⁴ tn Heb “comes to lack.” The person who withholds will come to the diminishing of his wealth. The verse uses hyperbole to teach that giving to charity does not make anyone poor, and neither does refusal to give ensure prosperity.