Proverbs 20:21
Wealth gained too soon won't do you any good in the end.
Free Bible 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
20Anyone who curses their father or mother will have their light put out and end in utter darkness.
22Don't say, “I'll get you back for doing me wrong.” Leave it to the Lord, and he'll help you.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner's wealth is saved for those who live right.
Proverbs 28:8Anyone who gets rich through charging interest and profiteering is only storing it up for someone who is kind to the poor.
Proverbs 28:22Envious people are in a rush to get rich; they don't realize they'll end up poor.
Zechariah 5:4“I have sent the curse out and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears lies in my name, declares the Lord Almighty. The curse will remain in that house, and will destroy it, both the timbers and the stones.”
1 Timothy 6:9Those who are determined to become rich fall into the trap of temptation, following many foolish and damaging impulses.
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 →