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.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.

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Verse 21

Original words

An inheritanceנַ֭חֲלָהH5159Noun - feminine singulargainedמְבֻחֶלֶתH973Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singularquicklyבָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑הH7223Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - feminine singularwill notלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particlebe blessedתְבֹרָֽךְ׃H1288Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person feminine singularin the endוְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּH319Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular

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