Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
BSB
ASV
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
KJV
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning,.... Of a man's setting out in the world in trade and business; and which sometimes is got lawfully, and this must be excepted from this proverb; but generally what is got hastily and in a short time is got unlawfully, and so does not prosper.
Or, An inheritance gotten hastily (greedily sought after by unjust means) at the beginning, the end thereof shall not be blessed. Another reading gives, “an inheritance loathed, (compare Zec 11:8), or with a curse upon it.” The King James Version agrees with the versions.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
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To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…
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Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
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He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
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Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
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A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
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Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
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1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
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Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
