Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, 2 won’t be blessed in the end. 1
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In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
22Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” 2 Wait for Adonai, and he will save you. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, 2 but the wealth of the sinner ·deviant (from the standard goal) person· is stored for the upright. 1
Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest 2 gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. 1
Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, 2 and does not know that poverty waits for him. 1
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 →