Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21Evil pursues sinners, but the righteous shall be recompensed with good.
23Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor, but there is [that is] consumed because of injustice.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Psalms 25:12What man is he who fears LORD? Him he shall instruct in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 102:28The sons of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Psalms 128:6Yea, see thou thy son's sons. Peace be upon Israel.
Ecclesiastes 2:26For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:22
21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. Here see, 1. How unavoidable the destruction of sinners is; the wrath of God pursues them, and all the terrors of that wrath: Evil pursues them closely wherever they go, as the avenger of blood pursued the manslayer, and they have no city of refuge to flee to; they attempt an escape, but in vain. Whom God pursues he is sure to overtake. They may prosper for a while and grow very secure, but their damnation slumbers not, though they do. 2. How… Read the whole commentary →