Proverbs 22:8
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Proverbs 14:3The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Isaiah 14:29Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
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 →