Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning will at its end not be blessed,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
20Whoso curseth his father or his mother—his lamp shall be quenched in obscure darkness.
22Do not say, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the Lord, and he will help thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is treasured up for the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8He that increaseth his wealth by interest and usury will gather it for him that will be kind to the poor.
Proverbs 28:22He that is eager for wealth is a man of an evil eye, and he knoweth not that want will come upon him.
Zechariah 5:4I bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.
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 →