Proverbs 20:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²¹ An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning, in the end it will not be blessed. [Prov. 28:20; Hab. 2:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Common English Bible

²¹ Inheritance gained quickly at first won’t bless later on.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ When an inheritance is obtained hastily in the beginning, in the end it will be without a blessing.

Proverbs 20:21 Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Don't say, *I will pay back evil.* Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

Proverbs 21:6

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Proverbs 23:4

Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

Zechariah 5:4

I will cause it to go out,* says the LORD of Armies, *and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.*

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,* says the LORD of Armies, *then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.