Proverbs 20:22
Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In Context
21The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
23Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.
Psalms 37:34Expect the Lord and keep his way : and he will exalt thee to inherit the land : when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.
Proverbs 17:13He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 24:29Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
Lamentations 3:25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh 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 →