Proverbs 20:21
A nachalah (inheritance) may be gotten hastily at the rishonah (beginning); 1 but the acharit (latter end) thereof shall not have a bracha. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
20He who curseth aviv or immo, 1 his ner (lamp) shall be put out in deep choshech. 1
22Say not thou, I will pay back rah; 1 but wait on Hashem, and He shall save thee. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A tov (good man) leaveth an inheritance to his bnei banim, 1 and the wealth of the choteh (sinner) is laid up for the tzaddik. 1
Proverbs 28:8He that by neshekh (interest) and increase increaseth his substance, 1 he shall gather it for him that will pity the dalim (poor ones). 1
Proverbs 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath a rah ayin, 1 and considereth not that want shall come upon him. 1
Zechariah 5:4I will send it + 5:4 ha'alah, the curse forth, saith Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and it shall enter into the bais haganav, 1 and into the bais of him that sweareth falsely biShmi (by My Name); 1 and it + 5:4 ha'alah shall remain inside his bais, 1 and shall destroy it 1 with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9But the ones desiring to be oishirim (rich men) fall into nisayon (temptation) and into a pakh (trap) and into many foolish and destructive ta'avot (lusts) which plunge men into cherem and Avaddon (destruction).
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 →