21 An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:21
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 21
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An inheritance נַ֭חֲלָה H5159 Noun - feminine singular gained מְבֻחֶלֶת H973 Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular quickly בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה H7223 Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - feminine singular will not לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle be blessed תְבֹרָֽךְ׃ H1288 Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person feminine singular in the end וְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ H319 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular