Proverbs 22:8

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

The one sowing injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his anger will come to an end.

Latin

Qui seminat iniquitatem metet mala, et virga iræ suæ consummabitur.

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

Galatians 6:7–8
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Isaiah 30:31
For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
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,
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 14:3
The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
Isaiah 9:4
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.
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.
Isaiah 14:29
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.
Isaiah 10:5
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.