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Selected Verse: Proverbs 20:21 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 20:21 |
King James |
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| gotten hastily--contrary to God's providence (Pro 28:20), implying its unjust or easy attainment; hence the man is punished, or spends freely what he got easily (compare Pro 20:17). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Or, An inheritance gotten hastily (greedily sought after by unjust means) at the beginning, the end thereof shall not be blessed. Another reading gives, "an inheritance loathed, (compare Zac 11:8), or with a curse upon it." The King James Version agrees with the versions. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
21 An inheritance which in the beginning is obtained in haste,
Its end will not be blessed.
The partic. מבחל may, after Zac 11:8, cf. Syr. bhlaa', nauseans, mean "detested," but that affords here no sense; rather it might be interpreted after the Arab. bajila, to be avaricious, "gotten by avarice, niggardliness," with which, however, neither נחלה, inheritance, nor, since avarice is a chronic disease, בּראשׁונה agrees. On the contrary, the Kerı̂ מבהלת [hastened] perfectly agrees, both linguistically (vid., Pro 28:22; cf. Pro 13:11) and actually; for, as Hitzig remarks, the words following Pro 20:20 fully harmonize with the idea of an inheritance, into the possession of which one is put before it is rightly due to him; for a son such as that, the parents may live too long, and so he violently deprives them of the possession (cf. Pro 19:26); but on such a possession there rests no blessing. Since the Piel may mean to hasten, Est 2:9, so מבהל may mean hastened = speedy, Est 8:14, as well as made in haste. All the old interpreters adopt the Kerı̂; the Aram. render it well by מסרהבא, from מסרהב, overturned; and Luther, like Jerome, haereditas ad quam festinatur. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| An inheritance - gotten hastily - Gotten by speculation; by lucky hits; not in the fair progressive way of traffic, in which money has its natural increase. All such inheritances are short-lived; God's blessing is not in them, because they are not the produce of industry; and they lead to idleness, pride, fraud and knavery. A speculation in trade is a pubiic nuisance and curse. How many honest men have been ruined by such! |
17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.