Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
Young's Literal Translation
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 is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
22Do not say, 'I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:22A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous [is] the sinner's wealth.
Proverbs 28:8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
Proverbs 28:22Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
Zechariah 5:4'I have brought it out — an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts — and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'
1 Timothy 6:9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
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 →