Proverbs 20:21
When an inheritance is obtained hastily in the beginning, in the end it will be without a blessing.
Catholic Public Domain 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
20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
22Do not say, “I will repay evil.” Wait for the Lord, and he will free you.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.
Proverbs 28:8Whoever piles up riches by usury and profit gathers them for him who will give freely to the poor.
Proverbs 28:22A man who hurries to become rich, and who envies others, does not know that destitution will overwhelm him.
Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it will approach to the house of the thief, and to the house of him who swears falsely by my name, and it will remain in the midst of his house and will consume it, with its wood and its stones.
1 Timothy 6:9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
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 →