Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning, the latter end thereof, shall not bring blessing.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
In Context
20Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
22Do not say, I will requite wrong! Wait thou for Yahweh that he may save thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children’s children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.
Proverbs 28:8He that increaseth his substance by interest and profit, for one ready to favour the poor, doth gather it.
Proverbs 28:22A man, hasting to be rich, hath an evil eye, and knoweth not when want may overtake him.
Zechariah 5:4[therefore] have I brought it forth, Declareth Yahweh of hosts, And it shall enter—into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth by my name, falsely,—and it shall roost in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, both the timbers thereof, and the stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men 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 →