Wine Is a Mocker
Proverbs 20:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
- KJV
- An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- WEB
- An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.
- ASV
- An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- LSV
- An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, || Even its latter end is not blessed.
- YLT
- An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
- DBY
- An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
- DRC
- The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
- GNV
- An heritage is hastely gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- JPS
- An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- LXXE20:9
- A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.
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- Written (Ketiv): מְבֻחֶלֶת (“greedily gained”). Read aloud (Qere): מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת (“hastily gained”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads מְבֹחֶ֣לֶת; read aloud (Qere) reads מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת (“hastily gained”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- נַ֭חֲלָה מבחלת בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ לֹ֣א תְבֹרָֽךְ׃Read aloud as (qere): מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת
- LXX-Br20:9
- Μερὶς ἐπισπουδαζομένη ἐν πρώτοις, ἐν τοῖς τελευταίοις οὐκ εὐλογηθήσεται.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
- Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
- Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
- Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you…
- Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and…
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 20:9b in some Bibles
- 20:21 in most Bibles