Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
20He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
22Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Proverbs 28:22He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.
Zechariah 5:4I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the
1 Timothy 6:9But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:21
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Here is, 1. An undutiful child become very wicked by degrees. He began with despising his father and mother, slighting their instructions, disobeying their commands, and raging at their rebukes, but at length he arrives at such a pitch of impudence and impiety as to curse them, to give them scurrilous and opprobrious language, and to wish mischief to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and… Read the whole commentary →