OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

Proverbs 20:22

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Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”

Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

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Proverbs 20:22 in context

Proverbs 20:19–25

19

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;

therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

20

Whoever curses his father or his mother,

his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

21

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning

won’t be blessed in the end.

22
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Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”

Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

23

The LORD detests differing weights,

and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

24

A man’s steps are from the LORD;

how then can man understand his way?

25

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,

then later to consider his vows.

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