Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained quickly at the beginning 1 will do less good in the end. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
22Do not say, “I will pay you back for this wrong!” 1 Wait for Yahweh and he will rescue you. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, 1 but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous person. 1
Proverbs 28:8The one who makes his fortune by charging too much interest 1 gathers his wealth for another who will have pity on poor people. 1
Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, 1 but he does not know that poverty will come upon him. 1
Zechariah 5:4“I will send it out—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—so it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one that swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and consume its timber and stones.”
1 Timothy 6:9Now those who want to become wealthy fall into temptation, into a trap. They fall into many foolish and harmful passions, and into whatever else makes people sink into ruin and 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 →