Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be got hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Updated King James Version
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 curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
22Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man left an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 28:8He that by interest and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Proverbs 28:22He that hastes to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come upon him.
Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
1 Timothy 6:9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which 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 →