Proverbs 20:21
A possession may be gotten hastily in the beginning, But in the end it will not be blessed.
Noyes Bible
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 put out in midnight darkness.
22Say not thou, “I will repay evil;” Wait on the LORD, and he will help thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22The good man leaveth his substance to his children's children; But the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 28:8He that increaseth his substance by usurious gain Gathereth it for him who will pity the poor.
Proverbs 28:22He who hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, And considereth not that poverty will come upon him.
Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, saith Jehovah 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 abide in his house, And shall consume it, with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9But they who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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 →