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Proverbs 11:26

WEB

26People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

KJV

26He that withholdeth[+] corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

BSB

26The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

FBV

26People curse those who hoard grain; but they bless those who sell.

Extra References

Genesis 42:6

6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Job 29:13

13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Amos 8:4-6

4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah[+] small, and the shekel[+] and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

Proverbs 24:24

24He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—