Proverbs 20:22
Do not say, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the Lord, and he will help thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In Context
21An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning will at its end not be blessed,
23Divers weights are an abomination of the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them.
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the Lord will look on my affliction, and the Lord will requite me good instead of his cursing this day.
Psalms 37:34Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, shalt thou look on.
Proverbs 17:13Whoso bestoweth evil in return for good—evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 24:29Say not, As he hath done to me so will I do to him: I will recompense every man according to his doing.
Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good unto those 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 →