<< Proverbs 22:8 >>

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whoever plants injustice will harvest trouble, and this weapon of his own fury will be destroyed.

King James Bible
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Verse 8

Note 1. Ill-gotten gains will not prosper: He that sows iniquity, that does an unjust thing in hopes to get by it, shall reap vanity; what he gets will never do him any good nor give him any satisfaction. He will meet nothing but disappointment. Those that create trouble to others do but prepare trouble for themselves. Men shall reap as they sow. 2. Abused power will not last. If the rod of authority turn into a rod of anger, if men rule by passion instead of prudence, and, instead of the public welfare, aim at nothing so much as the gratifying of their own resentments, it shall fail and be broken, and their power shall not bear them out in their exorbitances, Isa. 10:24, 25.

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