THEOSISProverbs 20:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
נַ֭חֲלָה מבחלת מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ לֹ֣א תְבֹרָֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 13:22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.
- 1 Tim 6:9For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.
- Hab 2:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?
- Prov 23:4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
- Prov 28:20A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
- Prov 28:8He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.
- Prov 28:22A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.
- Zech 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth 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.