Proverbs 22:8
By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
7The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
9He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Cross References
Job 4:8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
Isaiah 10:5Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isaiah 14:29Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
Hosea 8:7For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
Galatians 6:7Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:8
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. He had said ( v. 2 .), Rich and poor meet together; but here he finds, here he shows, that, as to the things of this life, there is a great difference; for, 1. Those that have little will be in subjection to those that have much, because they have dependence upon them, they have received, and expect to receive, support from them: The rich rule over the poor, and too often more than becomes them, with pride and rigour, unlike to God, who,… Read the whole commentary →