Proverbs 22:8

New English Translation

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

Cross References

Job 4:8

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Psalm 125:3

Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

Proverbs 14:3

In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

Isaiah 10:25

For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

Isaiah 10:5

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

Isaiah 14:29

Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.

Isaiah 30:31

Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.

Isaiah 9:4

For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

Hosea 10:13

But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.