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Proverbs 13:22
22A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
- English Standard Version (ESV)A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
- New King James Version (NKJV)A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly.
Context of Proverbs 13:22
20Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. 21Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things. A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. 23An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away. 24Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Read all of Proverbs 13Proverbs 13:22 word by word
ט֗וֹב יַנְחִ֥יל בְּנֵֽי־בָנִ֑ים וְצָפ֥וּן לַ֝צַּדִּ֗יק חֵ֣יל חוֹטֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 13:22
- Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Psalms 25:12Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
- Psalms 102:28The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”
- Psalms 112:2Their children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Psalms 128:6May you live to see your children’s children— peace be on Israel.
- Proverbs 28:8Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
- Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
- Ecclesiastes 2:26To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Commentaries on Proverbs 13:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22A good man leaveth an inheritance - He files many a prayer in heaven in their behalf, and his good example and advices are remembered and quoted from generation to generation. Besides, whatever property he left was honestly acquired, and well-gotten goods are permanent. The general experience of men shows this to be a common case; and that property ill-gotten seldom reaches to the third generation. This even the heathens observed. Hence: De male quaesitis…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22An expression of trust, that in the long run the anomalies of the world are rendered even (compare the marginal references). The heaped up treasures of the wicked find their way at last into the hands of better men.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22Verse 22 The servant of God who is not anxious about riches, takes the best method of providing for his children.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. wealth ... just--While good men's estates remain in their families, God so orders that the gains of sinners enure to the just (compare Pr 28:8; Psa 37:18, 22, 26, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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