Parallel Verses
King James 2000
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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.
A Conservative Version
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in 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
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 Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness. 21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. 22 Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:16-17
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing as the clay;
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 23:4
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Proverbs 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not go unpunished.
Proverbs 28:22
He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty 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 that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that loads himself with many pledges!
Zechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.