Proverbs 20:22
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In Context
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
23Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Psalms 37:34Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it .
Proverbs 17:13Whoever rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 24:29Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:22
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those that will be rich, by right or wrong, who make no conscience of what they say or do if they can but get money by it, who, when it is in their power, will cheat their own father, and who sordidly spare and hoard up what they get, grudging themselves and their families food convenient and thinking all lost but what they buy land with or put… Read the whole commentary →