Proverbs 20:21
A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
20The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.
22Say not, I will avenge myself on my enemy; but wait on the Lord, that he may help you.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 28:8He that increases his wealth by usuries and unjust gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.
Proverbs 28:22An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.
Zechariah 5:4And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.
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 →