Proverbs 20:21
If you very quickly take the property that your parents promise will be yours after they die, you will not receive any good/blessing from it.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22When good people die, their grandchildren inherit their money; but when sinners die, the money that they had will end up in the hands of righteous people.
Proverbs 28:8When people become very rich by charging very high interest [DOU], their money will eventually go to someone who does kind things for the poor.
Proverbs 28:22Selfish people [IDM] are very eager to become rich quickly; they do not realize that they will soon become poor.
Zechariah 5:4The Commander of the armies of angels says, ‘I will send copies of this scroll to the places where thieves live and to the houses of those who use my name when they solemnly promise to tell the truth. The copies of this scroll will stay in their houses, until those houses and all their wood and stones are destroyed.’”
1 Timothy 6:9But some people strongly desire to be rich. As a result, they do wrong things to get money, and this will cause them to be caught/trapped [MET] as animals get caught in traps. They foolishly desire many things, and those desires cause them to get hurt. And God will completely reject them!
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 →