Proverbs 13:22
A good man left an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
21Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of judgment.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your seed after you.
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Psalms 25:12What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 102:28The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you.
Psalms 128:6Yea, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Ecclesiastes 2:26For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:22
21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. Here see, 1. How unavoidable the destruction of sinners is; the wrath of God pursues them, and all the terrors of that wrath: Evil pursues them closely wherever they go, as the avenger of blood pursued the manslayer, and they have no city of refuge to flee to; they attempt an escape, but in vain. Whom God pursues he is sure to overtake. They may prosper for a while and grow very secure, but their damnation slumbers not, though they do. 2. How… Read the whole commentary →