Proverbs 22:8 “He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will…”

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

American Standard Version

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Geneva Bible 1599

He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.

Darby Translation

He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.

Young's Literal Translation

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

Bible in Basic English

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

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Cross references

“that”

Job 4:8 Hosea 10:13 Hosea 8:7 Galatians 6:7 Galatians 6:8

Job 4:8 · BSB

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Hosea 10:13 · BSB

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Hosea 8:7 · BSB

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Galatians 6:7 · BSB

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Galatians 6:8 · BSB

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

“the rod of his anger shall fail”

Isaiah 30:31 Psalm 125:3 Proverbs 14:3 Isaiah 9:4 Isaiah 10:5 Isaiah 14:29

Isaiah 30:31 · BSB

For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.

Psalm 125:3 · BSB

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Proverbs 14:3 · BSB

The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Isaiah 9:4 · BSB

For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

Isaiah 10:5 · BSB

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 14:29 · BSB

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

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