Proverbs 22:8
Whoever is sowing perverseness reaps sorrow, || And the rod of his anger wears out.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
7The rich rules over the poor, || And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.
9The good of eye—he is blessed, || For he has given of his bread to the poor.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Proverbs 14:3A rod of pride [is] in the mouth of a fool, || And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Isaiah 10:5“Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of My anger, || And My indignation [is] a staff in their hand.
Isaiah 14:29“Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, || That the rod of your striker has been broken, || For from the root of a serpent comes out a viper, || And its fruit [is] a flying, burning serpent.
Hosea 8:7For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, || Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, || If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.
Galatians 6:7Do not be led astray: God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that he will also reap,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:8
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. He had said ( v. 2 .), Rich and poor meet together; but here he finds, here he shows, that, as to the things of this life, there is a great difference; for, 1. Those that have little will be in subjection to those that have much, because they have dependence upon them, they have received, and expect to receive, support from them: The rich rule over the poor, and too often more than becomes them, with pride and rigour, unlike to God, who,… Read the whole commentary →