Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Revised Version 1895
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 curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil: wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8He that augmenteth his substance by usury and increase, gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.
Proverbs 28:22He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Zechariah 5:4I will cause it to go forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
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 →