Proverbs 22:8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
New Heart English Bible
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 plow 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 14:29Do not 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 6:7Do not 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 →