Proverbs 22:8
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
In Context
7The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.
9The good of eye — he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of a fool [is] a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Isaiah 10:5Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand [is] Mine indignation.
Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit [is] a flying saraph.
Hosea 8:7For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none — a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield — strangers do swallow it up.
Galatians 6:7Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow — that also he shall reap,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:8
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. He had said ( v. 2 .), Rich and poor meet together; but here he finds, here he shows, that, as to the things of this life, there is a great difference; for, 1. Those that have little will be in subjection to those that have much, because they have dependence upon them, they have received, and expect to receive, support from them: The rich rule over the poor, and too often more than becomes them, with pride and rigour, unlike to God, who,… Read the whole commentary →