Proverbs 20:22
Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In Context
21An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
23Diverse weights are an abomination to LORD, and a FALSE balance is not good.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
2 Samuel 16:12It may be that LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that LORD will reward me good for [his] cursing of me this day.
Psalms 37:34Wait for LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land. When sinners are cut off, thou shall see it.
Proverbs 17:13He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 24:29Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
Lamentations 3:25LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:22
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those that will be rich, by right or wrong, who make no conscience of what they say or do if they can but get money by it, who, when it is in their power, will cheat their own father, and who sordidly spare and hoard up what they get, grudging themselves and their families food convenient and thinking all lost but what they buy land with or put… Read the whole commentary →