Proverbs 22:8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
9He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Cross References
Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Proverbs 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
Isaiah 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 14:29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Galatians 6:7Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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 →