Proverbs 20:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. ”

• Proverbs 20:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 Zechariah...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  blessed . happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13 .

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. An inheritance - gotten hastily - Gotten by speculation; by lucky hits; not in the fair progressive...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. An inheritance (may be) gotten hastily, [so the Qeri' reads, mªbohelet ( H926 ); cf. Pr...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The end thereof shall not be blessed. — Comp. Proverbs 28:20 : the evil means by which he acquired the possession will, at the last, be visited upon him. Thus Jacob was punished severely for the...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Glory of Young Men” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27 ! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature e...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There i...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning ,.... Of a man's setting out in the world in trade and business; and which sometimes is got lawfully, and this must be excepted from this prov...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Ver. 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily, &c. ] By wishing and working the death of pa...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily An estate is sometimes soon gained, even in the very beginning of a man's labours for it: in which case, it may be presumed that some indirect and unrighteous m...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.       Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those t...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; an estate sometimes is got suddenly, in the very beginning of a man's labours for it; in which case it may be presumed that some indirect and...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:20 AN UNNATURAL CHILD AND A NATURAL LAW I. An unnatural child . The ungrateful son or daughter of good parents is an unnatural being. If experience did not contr...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Patience and permanence Ours is an age of haste. Short cuts to learning, professional life witho...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, wayward and ungodly children being so eager that they even drive their parents out of their possession; but the end thereof shall not...

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• Proverbs 20:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Timothy 6:9 ; Habakkuk 2:6 ; Job 27:16 ; Job 27:17 ; Malachi 2:2 ; Proverbs 13:22 ; Proverbs 23:4 ; Proverbs 28:20 ; Proverbs 28:22 ; Proverbs 28:8 ; Zechariah 5:4

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