Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
New American Standard Bible
Will not be blessed in the end.
King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Holman Bible
will not be blessed ultimately.
International Standard Version
An inheritance quickly obtained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.
American Standard Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Amplified
An inheritance hastily gained [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning
Will not be blessed in the end.
Bible in Basic English
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Darby Translation
An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Julia Smith Translation
An inheritance greedily gotten in the beginning; and its latter state shall not be
King James 2000
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
An inheritance acquired [hastily] {at the beginning} will not be blessed at its end.
Modern King James verseion
An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.
NET Bible
An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
New Heart English Bible
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
The Emphasized Bible
An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning, the latter end thereof, shall not bring blessing.
Webster
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
World English Bible
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
Youngs Literal Translation
An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
Interlinear
Bahal
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
20 He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. 21 An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end. 22 Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:16-17
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 28:22
He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!
Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.