Proverbs 13:22
Good News Translation
Good people will have wealth to leave to their grandchildren, but the wealth of sinners will go to the righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Contemporary English Version
If you obey God, you will have something to leave your grandchildren. If you don't obey God, those who live right will get what you leave.

New American Bible
The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

leaveth

Genesis 17:7,8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Psalm 25:12,13 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen. . . .

Psalm 102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Psalm 112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Psalm 128:6 And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.

the wealth

Proverbs 28:8 He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

Job 27:16,17 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:26 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Context
A Father's Discipline
21Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid. 22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment.…
Cross References
Ezra 9:12
Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not their daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their prosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good things of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.

Job 27:16
If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Job 27:17
He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 28:8
He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:26
God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Proverbs 13:21
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