Proverbs 22:8
New International Version
Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.

New Living Translation
Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will come to an end.

English Standard Version
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

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

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

New King James Version
He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his anger will fail.

New American Standard Bible
One who sows injustice will reap disaster, And the rod of his fury will perish.

NASB 1995
He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish.

NASB 1977
He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish.

Legacy Standard Bible
He who sows unrighteousness will reap iniquity, And the rod of his fury will end.

Amplified Bible
He who sows injustice will reap [a harvest of] trouble, And the rod of his wrath [with which he oppresses others] will fail.

Christian Standard Bible
The one who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who sows injustice will reap disaster, 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He that sows evil will reap fraud, and the scepter of his anger will be destroyed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.

Contemporary English Version
Troublemakers get in trouble, and their terrible anger will get them nowhere.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

English Revised Version
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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

Good News Translation
If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

International Standard Version
Whoever sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the anger he uses for a weapon will be destroyed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Literal Standard Version
Whoever is sowing perverseness reaps sorrow, | And the rod of his anger wears out.

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

New American Bible
Those who sow iniquity reap calamity, and the rod used in anger will fail.

NET Bible
The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.

New Heart English Bible
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will fail. God blesses a cheerful and generous person, but the vanity of his deeds he will bring to an end.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

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Context
A Good Name
7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. 8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. 9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.…

Cross References
Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Psalm 125:3
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 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Hosea 8:7
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.

Hosea 10:13
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,


Treasury of Scripture

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

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Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 10:13
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

the rod of his anger shall fail

Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Psalm 125:3
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Isaiah 9:4
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

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Proverbs 22
1. A good name is more desirable than great wealth














(8) Vanity--i.e., calamity, trouble.

The rod of his anger shall fail.--When his time comes, and his iniquity is full, he shall himself suffer the punishment he brought on others, as Babylon did (Isaiah 14:6), Assyria (Isaiah 30:31).

Verse 8. - He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; shall gain nothing substantial, shall have nothing to show for his pains. But aven also means "calamity," "trouble," as Proverbs 12:21; so the gnome expresses the truth that they who do evil shall meet with punishment in their very sins - the exact contrast to the promise to the righteous (Proverbs 11:18). "To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." Thus we have in Job 4:8, "They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same;" and the apostle asserts (Galatians 6:7, etc), "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Eastern proverbs run, "As the sin, so the atonement:" "Those who sow thorns can only reap prickles" (comp. Proverbs 12:14). And the rod of his anger shall fail. The writer is thinking especially of cruelty and injustice practised on a neighbour, as Delitzsch has pointed out, and he means that the rod which he has raised, the violence intended against the innocent victim, shall vanish away or fall harmlessly. Ewald and others think that the rod is the Divine anger, and translate the verb (kalah) "is prepared," a sense which here it will not well bear, though the LXX. has lent some countenance to it by rendering, "And shall fully accomplish the plague (πληγὴν,? 'punishment') of his deeds." The rendering, "shall fail." "shall be consumed, or annihilated," is confirmed by Genesis 21:15; Isaiah 1:28; Isaiah 16:4, etc. The Septuagint adds a distich here, of which the first member is a variant of ver. 9a. and the second another rendering of the latter hemistich of the present verse: "A cheerful man and a giver God blesseth (ἄνδρα ἱλαρὸν καὶ δότην εὐλογεῖ ὁ Θεός): but he shall bring to an end (συντελεσεῖ) the vanity of his works." The first hemistich is remarkable for being quoted by St. Paul (2 Corinthians 9:7), with a slight variation, Ἱλαρὸν γὰρ δότην ἀγαπᾷ ὁ Θεός. So Ecclus. 32 (35):9, "In all thy gifts show a cheerful countenance (ἱλάρωσον τὸ πρόσθπόν σου)."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He who sows
זוֹרֵ֣עַ (zō·w·rê·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

injustice
עַ֭וְלָה (‘aw·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness

will reap disaster,
יִקְצָר־ (yiq·ṣār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

and the rod
וְשֵׁ֖בֶט (wə·šê·ḇeṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of his fury
עֶבְרָת֣וֹ (‘eḇ·rā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5678: Overflow, arrogance, fury

will be destroyed.
יִכְלֶֽה׃ (yiḵ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent


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