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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:21

Verse Proverbs 20:21. 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 public nuisance and curse. How many honest men have been ruined by such!

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See also Proverbs 20:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 11:...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if applied to Solomon....

  • 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 thought. P...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _hastily_ Comp. Proverbs 28:20; Proverbs 28:22....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 20:21-30 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed. 22. Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he wil...

  • 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. PROVERBS 28:20 ]...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    20:21 hastily (f-4) Others read 'wrongly acquired.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 20 V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts at you. If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    There are many ways to get money quickly. You might steal money. You might cheat other people. You might make an evil plan. These methods are all evil. If you do these things, then you will suffer pun...

  • 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 selfi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נַ֭חֲלָה _מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת_† בָּ † רִאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְ֝ אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ...

  • 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 glimpse of t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is...

  • 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 ever bent...

  • 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 descrip...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Blessing. It is morally impossible that they should have been acquired justly, chap. xiii. 11., and xxi. 5._...

  • 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 is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 proverb...

  • 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 parents,...

  • 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 me...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 BE B...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 unr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 20:21 inheritance H5159 hastily H926 (H8794) (H8675) H973 (H8794) beginning H7223 blessed H1288 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...

  • 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. Cyrus, after notic...

  • 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 without...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:20 The person who despises parental authority will eventually face UTTER DARKNESS (compare Exodus 20:12)....

  • The 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 contradict,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 influence. Thus...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Into chapter 20. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1). He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next week,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 6:9; Habakkuk 2:6; Job 27:16; Job 27:17; Malachi 2:2;...

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