Proverbs 20:22
Do not say, “I will pay you back for this wrong!” 1 Wait for Yahweh and he will rescue you. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In Context
21An inheritance gained quickly at the beginning 1 will do less good in the end. 1
23Yahweh hates unequal weights 1 and dishonest scales are not good. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense, 1 at the time when their foot slips; 1 for the day of disaster for them is near, 1 and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen.” 1
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps Yahweh will look at the misery unleashed on me, and repay me with good for his cursing me today.”
Psalms 37:34Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, 1 and he will raise you up to possess the land. 1 You will see when the wicked are cut off. 1
Proverbs 17:13When someone returns evil for good, 1 evil will never leave his house. 1
Proverbs 24:29Do not say, “I will do to him what he has done to me; 1 I will pay him back for what he has done.” 1
Lamentations 3:25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the one who seeks him. 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:22
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those that will be rich, by right or wrong, who make no conscience of what they say or do if they can but get money by it, who, when it is in their power, will cheat their own father, and who sordidly spare and hoard up what they get, grudging themselves and their families food convenient and thinking all lost but what they buy land with or put… Read the whole commentary →