Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance grabbed hastily or greedily will not be blessed in the end. It matters because gain pursued wrongly carries no lasting blessing.

Cross-references · 10

• 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
• Prov 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
• Prov 28:20A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Hab 2:6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
• Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
• Zech 5:4I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

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