Proverbs 22:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Cross References

Job 4:8

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Psalm 125:3

For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

Proverbs 1:31

So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

Isaiah 10:25

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

Isaiah 10:5

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Isaiah 14:29

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

Isaiah 30:31

For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

Isaiah 9:4

For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

Hosea 10:13

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.