Proverbs 20:21
An heritage is hastely gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
20He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
22Say not thou, I wil recompense euill: but waite vpon the Lord, and he shall saue thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22The good man shall giue inheritance vnto his childrens children: and the riches of the sinner is layde vp for the iust.
Proverbs 28:8He that increaseth his riches by vsurie and interest, gathereth them for him that will be mercifull vnto the poore.
Proverbs 28:22A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches, and knoweth not, that pouertie shall come vpon him.
Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thiefe, and into the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my Name: and it shall remaine in the middes of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition 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 →