Proverbs 20:21

Young's Literal Translation 1898

An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous [is] the sinner's wealth.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, ‘I recompense evil,’ Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

Proverbs 21:6

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, [Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

Proverbs 23:4

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Proverbs 28:20

A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

Proverbs 28:22

Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

Habakkuk 2:6

Do not these — all of them — against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Zechariah 5:4

‘I have brought it out — an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts — and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.’

Malachi 2:2

If ye hearken not, and if ye lay [it] not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying [it] to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,