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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those that will be rich, by right or wrong, who make no conscience of what they say or do if they can but get money by it, who, when it is in their power, will cheat their own father, and who sordidly spare and hoard up what they get, grudging themselves and their families food convenient and thinking all lost but what they buy land with or put out to interest. By such ways as these a man may grow rich, may grow very... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Those that live in this world must expect to have injuries done them, affronts given them, and trouble wrongfully created them, for we dwell among briers. Now here we are told what to do when we have wrong done us. 1. We must not avenge ourselves, no, nor so much as think of revenge, or design it: ?Say not thou, no, not in thy heart, I will recompense evil for evil. Do not please thyself with the thought that some time or other thou shalt have an opportunity of being quits with him. Do not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

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; but generally what is got hastily and in a short time is got unlawfully, and so does not prosper. Some Jewish interpreters, as Gersom, understand it of an inheritance which comes to persons from their friends, without any labour or industry of theirs; and which they are not careful to keep,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil ,.... With evil; do an injury to one that has done one to you; private revenge is not to be taken, but should be left to God, to whom vengeance belongs, Deuteronomy 32:35 ; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee ; commit thyself and cause to God; leave it with him to avenge thy wrongs; wait upon him in the way of thy duty, and wait his own time to do thee justice; he will at the proper season, and in his own way, save thee from thine enemy,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 pubiic nuisance and curse. How many honest men have been ruined by such! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:22

I will recompense evil - Wait on the Lord; judgment is his, and his judgments are sure. In the mean time pray for the conversion of your enemy. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:20-23

Smitten sins I. HATRED TO PARENTS . ( Proverbs 20:20 .) 1 . It is unnatural beyond most vices, like hating the hand that lifts food to the mouth. 2 . It is disobedience to a primary Divine command. 3 . It incurs the Divine curse and the darkest doom. II. THE VICE OF GRASPING . ( Proverbs 20:21 .) It springs from excessive, irregular, disordered desire, and generally from an ill-led life. We must wait upon God's order; must distinguish the necessary from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning —or, which in the beginning, is obtained in haste— but the end thereof shall not be blessed; or, its end shall not be blessed. The Khetib gives מְבֹהֶלֶת , which (comp. Zechariah 11:8 ) may mean "detested," but this gives no sense; it is better, with the Keri, to replace kheth with he, and read מְבֹהֶלֶת ( meboheleth ) , "hastened," "hastily acquired". The maxim, taken in connection with the preceding verse, may... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil ( Proverbs 24:29 ). The jus talonis is the natural feeling of man, to do to others as they have done unto you, to requite evil with evil. But the moralist teaches a better lesson, urging men not to study revenge, and approaching nearer to Christ's injunction, which gives the law of charity, "Whatsoever ye would ( οπσα ἂν θέλητε ) that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" ( Matthew 7:12 ). The Christian rule is expounded fully by St.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Revenge and its antidote I. THE SIN AND FOLLY OF REVENGE . This passion appears to spring from a natural instinct; it pretends to justify itself as the fair return for some wrong, and it offers a compensation for the Wrong suffered in the triumph which it gains over the wrong doer. But it is both culpable and foolish. 1 . It is culpable. Even if revenge were desirable, we have no right to wreak it on the head of the offender. We are not his judge and executioner. God... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:20-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

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