Proverbs 20:22

Say thou not, I shall yield evil for evil; abide thou the Lord, and he shall deliver thee. (Say thou not, I shall give back evil for evil; wait thou for the Lord, and he shall save thee or and he shall rescue thee.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

In Context

21Heritage to which men hasteth (to get) in the beginning, shall want blessing in the last time. (An inheritance which someone hasteneth to get early, shall lack blessing in the end.)

23Abomination with God is weight and weight; a guileful balance is not good. (An abomination with God is different weights; a deceitful scale is not good.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and I shall yield (it) to them in time, (so) that the foot of them slide; the day of perdition is nigh, and the times hasten to be present.

2 Samuel 16:12if in hap the Lord behold my tormenting, and yield good to me for this day’s cursing. (perhaps the Lord shall behold my torments, and shall yield good to me for this day’s curses.)

Psalms 37:34Abide thou the Lord, and keep thou his way, and he shall enhance thee, that by heritage thou take the land; when sinners shall perish, thou shalt see. (Wait thou for the Lord, and keep thou to his way, and he shall raise thee up, or shall exalt thee, so that thou take the land by inheritance; and when the sinners shall perish, thou shalt see it.)

Proverbs 17:13Evil shall not go away from the house of him, that yieldeth evils for goods (or who giveth evil for good).

Proverbs 24:29Say thou not, As he did to me, so I shall do to him, and I shall yield to each man after his work.

Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good to them that hope into him, to a soul seeking him. (The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to someone seeking 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 →

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