Proverbs 20:21 - American Standard Version 2015

²¹ An inheritance {\i may be} gotten hastily at the beginning;\par\tab But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children;\par\tab And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother,\par\tab His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil:\par\tab Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue\par\tab Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Proverbs 23:4

Weary not thyself to be rich;\par\tab Cease from thine own wisdom.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall abound with blessings;\par\tab But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches,\par\tab And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

Proverbs 28:8

He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase,\par\tab Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!

Zechariah 5:4

I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.\par

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.