Proverbs 20:21 - Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

English Standard Version 2016

²¹ An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 20:21 Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, "I will repay evil." Wait for the Lord, and he will free you.

Proverbs 21:6

Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall be greatly praised. But whoever rushes to become rich will not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:22

A man who hurries to become rich, and who envies others, does not know that destitution will overwhelm him.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever piles up riches by usury and profit gathers them for him who will give freely to the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and an enigmatic utterance about him? And it will be said, "Woe to him who increases what is not his own." How long, then, will he lay down dense clay against himself?

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it will approach to the house of the thief, and to the house of him who swears falsely by my name, and it will remain in the midst of his house and will consume it, with its wood and its stones.

Malachi 2:2

If you will refuse to listen, and if you will refuse to take it to heart, so as to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send destitution upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I will curse them. For you have not taken it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.