Proverbs 22:8
If you plant corn or rice, corn or rice will grow; similarly, if you act unjustly, you will have disasters [MET]; and if you try to harm/oppress people because you are angry with them, you will not be able to harm them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
9God will bless those who are generous [IDM], those who give some of their food to poor people.
Cross References
Job 4:8What I have experienced is this: Just as [MET] farmers who plant bad seeds do not harvest good crops, just as those who start trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
Proverbs 14:3Foolish people will be punished [MTY] for what they say, but wise people will be protected by what they say [MTY].
Isaiah 10:5Yahweh says, “Terrible things will happen to Assyria. It is true that their army is like a rod/club [DOU] with which I punish other nations because I am very angry with those nations [DOU].
Isaiah 14:29You people of Philistia, do not rejoice that the enemy army [MET] that attacked you has been defeated and that their king is dead. He was as dangerous as [MET] a snake, but there will be another king, who will be more dangerous than a cobra; he will be like [MET] a quick-moving poisonous snake.
Hosea 8:7The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads on the stalks, and as a result there will be no grain from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would come and steal it.
Galatians 6:7You should not deceive yourselves. Remember that God is never outwitted {no one ever fools God}. Just like a farmer will reap exactly the kind of crop that he plants [MET], God will reward people according to what they have done [MET].
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 →