21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.


In Context

18 Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.

22 Don't say, |I will pay back evil.| Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

Proverbs 20:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:21The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.