He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
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- Galatians 6:7-8 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
- Job 4:8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
- Psalms 125:3 For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
- Isaiah 30:31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
- Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
- Proverbs 14:3 The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
- Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
- Isaiah 10:5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
- Isaiah 14:29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
- Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain His authority, whereby he did oppress others, shall be…
His authority, whereby he did oppress others, shall be taken from him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity:…
Pro 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Ver. 8. He that soweth iniquity, shall reap vanity.] The usurer and cruel creditor soweth his money, his mammon of iniquity (that ungain grain), upon his poor debtors; and whether it be a barren year or a fruitful, a good soil or a bad, luna affert menstruos sensus, he hath his constant pay, yea, his use upon use, according to that Greek verse,
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‘Eστι τοκος προ τοκοιο, τοκος τε μεν εστι και αλλος.’
Now, can such increase be blest? Shall not those that thus sow the wind be sure to reap the whirlwind?
And the rod of his anger shall fail.] That is, that tyrannical power which he exerciseth upon others, as his underlings, shall be broken. God will take out of his hand the rod wherewith he hath beaten his fellow servants, and waste it upon his own back to the very stump.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He that soweth iniquity, or unrighteousness, whose common practice…
He that soweth iniquity, or unrighteousness, whose common practice it is to wrong or oppress others,
shall reap vanity; or, trouble or misery, as this word is commonly used, and as divers here render it. The mischief which he hath done to others shall be returned to him by God’s righteous sentence.
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The rod of his anger shall fail; that power which he used with fury and cruelty shall be taken away from him.
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Note 1. Ill-gotten gains will not prosper: He that sows iniquity, that does an unjust thing in hopes to get by it, shall reap vanity; what he gets will never do him any good nor give him any satisfaction. He will meet nothing but disappointment. Those that create trouble to others do but prepare trouble for themselves. Men shall reap as they sow. 2. Abused power will not last. If the rod of authority turn into a rod of anger, if men rule by passion instead of prudence, and, instead of the public welfare, aim at nothing so much as the gratifying of their own resentments, it shall fail and be broken, and their power shall not bear them out in their exorbitances, Isa 10:24, Isa 10:25.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He that soweth iniquity (u) shall reap vanity,.... He…
He that soweth iniquity (u) shall reap vanity,.... He that practises sin, and is frequent in the commission of it; indulges to it in a profuse way, as the sower plentifully scatters his seed; such shall reaper possess nothing but sin and wickedness; for, what a man sows, that shall he reap; he shall eat the fruit of his doings, and have the reward of his works; see Job 4:8; or "nothing" (w), mere emptiness; it shall not answer; he shall have in the end neither pleasure nor profit, but the contrary; "shall reap evil things", as the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions render it;
and the rod of his anger shall fail; with which he has ruled and smitten others in an angry and cruel manner; this shall be taken from him; his authority shall fail, and he shall become subject to others, and be used in like manner; see Isa 14:4. R. Joseph Kimchi interprets it of "the rod of the increase" of the earth, or the rod or flail with which the fruits of the earth are threshed or beaten out, which should fail before they were reaped; and Schultens (x) has reference to the same, and gives the sense, that a wicked man that sows iniquity, when he thinks his harvest is ripe, shall be beaten with the flail, by which he shall be consumed; and he that threshed others shall be threshed himself.
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(u) So, "serere fallaciam", in Plauti Poenulo, l. 1. v. 67. (w) "inanitatem ac nihilum", Michaelis. (x) "Et virga in eum desaevitura, erit decretoria".
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The rod - That power which he used with fury shall be taken from him.
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Verse 8. He that soweth iniquity] The crop must be according to the seed. If a man sow thistle seed, is it likely he shall reap wheat? If he sow to the flesh, shall he not of the flesh reap destruction?
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Pro 22:8. He that soweth iniquity — Or, unrighteousness; he, whose common practice it is to wrong or oppress others; shall reap vanity — Or trouble, or misery, as the word אוןcommonly signifies, and as many here render it. The mischief which he hath done to others shall be returned to himself by God’s righteous sentence; and the rod of his anger shall fail — That power which he used with fury and cruelty shall be taken from him.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The rod of his anger - That with which…
The rod of his anger - That with which he smites others (compare Isa 14:6). The King James Version describes the final impotence of the wrath of the wicked.
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Scripture often gives the practical illustration of the seed-time and harvest.†1 They are linked together in the spiritual, not less than in the natural, world. The harvest is according to the seed. (Gal 6:7-8 .) Such is the transcendent dignity and worth of the soul, that eternity is stamped upon all its actions. Every thought, every principle (is not this a solemn recollection?) is a seed for eternity, issuing in an harvest of eternal joy, or "desperate sorrow." The wise man here adverts to the latter harvest. All experience and observation testify to the fact, that the diligence of the ungodly sower can only end in vanity, in utter and eternal disappointment. (Job 4:8 . Rom 6:21 .)
The connection,†2 however, of the two clauses of the Proverb may intimate, that the iron rod of the rich ruling over the poor, following the dictates of selfishness, will ensure disappointment. Their abused power will shortly fail, and they will reap only the harvest of their injustice. Often may oppressors prosper for a time. God may use them as his chastening rod. But the seed-time of iniquity will end in the harvest of vanity; and when they have done their work, the rod of their anger shall fail. Such was Sennacherib in olden time,†3 such was Napoleon in our own day. Never has the world seen so extensive a sower of iniquity, never a more abundant harvest of vanity. The rod of anger was he to the nations of the earth. But how utterly was the rod suffered to fail, when the purpose was accomplished! despoiled of empire, shorn of greatness, an exiled captive. Such is not the harvest from God’s seed! "A sure reward" (Pro 11:18 ), not of vanity, but of substantial, everlasting joy. (Psa 126:5-6 .) Here let us "sow bountifully, that we may reap also bountifully." (2Co 9:6, 2Co 9:9 .)
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†1 Psa 126:5-6. Hos 10:12 . Mat 13:3, Mat 13:24-30 .
†2 Pro 22:7.
†3 Isa 10:5-12, Isa 10:24-25 ; Isa 30:31 . Zec 10:11 .
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Consumed. Or beaten with the flail of God’s anger.
Consumed. Or beaten with the flail of God’s anger.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare Pro 11:18; Psa 109:16-20; Gal 6:7-8).
(Compare Pro 11:18; Psa 109:16-20; Gal 6:7-8).
the rod . . . fail--His power to do evil will be destroyed.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. Shall reap vanity — Evil, trouble, calamity. “As…
8. Shall reap vanity — Evil, trouble, calamity. “As a man soweth, so shall he also reap.” Gal_6:7. And the rod of his anger —Haughtiness, insolence, shall fail or be ended. Conant reads: “Shall be ready,” — finished and ready for use upon him — understanding it of the rod prepared for him Comp. 2Pe_2:3.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. vanity] Better, with R.V. text, calamity; κακὰ, LXX.;…
8. vanity] Better, with R.V. text, calamity; κακὰ, LXX.; mala, Vulg.
the rod of his anger] i.e. his power to vent his wrath upon others. Comp. Isa_14:6.
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The LXX. add to this verse ἄνδρα ἱλαρὸν καὶ δότην εὐλογεῖ ὁ Θεὸς, which is quoted by St Paul, 2Co_9:7.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Vanity—i.e., calamity, trouble.
(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 (Isa_14:6), Assyria (Isa_30:31).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; shall gain…
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 Pro_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. (Pro_11:18) "To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." Thus we have Job_4:8, "They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same;" and the apostle asserts, (Gal_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. Pro_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 (plhghn , ? "punishment") of his deeds." The rendering, "shall fail." "shall be consumed, or annihilated," is confirmed by Gen_21:15 Isa_1:28 Isa_16:4, etc. The Septuagint adds a distich here, of which the first member is a variant of ver. 9 a. and the second another rendering of the latter hemistich of the present verse: "A cheerful man and a giver God blesseth (andra ilaro dothn eulogei o Yeov ): but he shall bring to an end (suntelesei ) the vanity of his works." The first hemistich is remarkable for being quoted by St. Paul, (in 2Co_9:7) with a slight variation, Ilarothn agapa o Yeov . So Ecclus. 32 (35):9, "In all thy gifts show a cheerful countenance (ilarwson to prosypon sou )."
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity.
Pro_22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity.
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The husbandry and harvestof the wicked
I. What is it to sow iniquity? or, to sow to the flesh? To follow only such a kind of life as a mans own carnal and corrupt humour leads unto. It is called sowing because--
1. Before sowing goes the dressing and manuring of the ground; and men make themselves ready beforehand to do evil.
2. Ploughing and sowing are accompanied with much industry. And great is the diligence of the ungodly in the furtherance of iniquity.
3. Sowing, though laborious, is full of contentment. And the ungodly find joy in doing naughtily.
4. In sowing there go many seeds together, one handful after another. In the lives of the wicked there are plenty of evils; they never go alone--one maketh way for another.
5. After sowing the ground is harrowed, and the seed covered. So when evil is entertained in the heart, what policy there is to secrete it.
Sowing iniquity is discerned by these signs:
1. A cherishing and encouraging the heart to evil.
2. A taking pains to do naughtily.
3. A delighting in wickedness.
4. A heaping of one sin on the neck of another.
5. A plotting for the bringing of evil to perfection.
6. A withstanding of all means tending to recovery.
II. What are the troubles which follow on this sowing of iniquity? The affliction here meant is either in this life or hereafter. That which is in this life is either outward or inward. Diseases, discredit, etc. A conscience full of inward vexation; and sometimes a reprobate mind. The term reap indicates the fulness and certainty of the affliction. Two points of doctrine taught--
1. The greatness of Gods patience.
2. The certainty of His justice. (S. Hieron.)
Wild oats
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity (R.V.). The fashion of never calling a spade a spade is known as euphemism. According to it death is paying the debt of nature, stealing is misappropriation, lying is prevarication. A trace of it is found in the expression, sowing ones wild oats. The phrase is intended to comprehend pretty much all the vices of young manhood. We are all sowing something or other. Some sow the fine wheat of kindly lives and generous deeds. Others go heedlessly sowing the wind. It would be well, all around, if there were less of sentimentalism and more of sound common sense with respect to the follies of our fast young men. Never were two greater mistakes made than are embodied in these two excuses, Boys will be boys, and Hell live it down; Im sure hell live it down. Paul directs our attention to the two levels of life--the low level of the flesh; the higher level of the spirit, where are men who live not for themselves only, but for the good of others and the glory of God. For all who are building character and making their lives tell for truth and righteousness, there are three safeguards--conscience, the sense of honour, and faith. There is no hope that the vicious young man will live his evil down. Sin works a terrible damage. It rots ones self-respect; it pollutes the memory. It indisposes the soul for better things. It enslaves in the fetters of habit. It ruins the body. It destroys the soul. But no matter what the mistakes of our past lives have been, if we repent the Lord is ready to forgive. (D. J. Burrell, D.D.)
Human life
I. The inevitable work of human life. What is the work? It is that of moral agriculture-sowing and reaping. Every man in every act of life is doing this. Every volition, whether it takes the form of a thought, a word, or a muscular act, is a seed. There is a germ of imperishable life in it. What seeds men sow every day. What bushels they deposit in the moral soil of their being. But they reap as well as sow every day. What was sown yesterday they reap to-day. Men are living in the fruits of their doings. The law of causation is inviolate and ever operative within them.
II. The retributive law of human life. What you sow youll reap.
1. What you sow in kind you reap. He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity. Job says, They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same (Job_4:8). Paul (Gal_6:7-8). God will not reverse the law.
2. What you sow in measure you shall reap. Not a grain will be lost. Sometimes the seed which the husbandman commits to the soil rots. But not a grain in the harvest of life is lost. He will reap the richest harvest of blessedness who is most active in deeds of love and godliness. The words present--
III. The terrible mistake of human life. What is the mistake? Sowing iniquity.
1. This is a general mistake.
2. This is a mistake which men are slow to learn.
3. This is a mistake whose ultimate consequences will be terrific.
And the rod of his anger shall fail; or, as in the margin, With the rod of his anger shall he be consumed. Perhaps this expression refers to the tyrannic power exercised by wealthy men, as referred to in the preceding verse. Death shall wrest the rod from his hands. God shall break it to pieces; and his tyranny and iniquity shall leave him nothing but shame, remorse, and the fruits of Divine vengeance. (Homilist.)
Sowing wild oats
In all the wide range of accepted British maxims there is none, take it for all in all, more thoroughly abominable than that a young man must sow his wild oats. Look at it on what side you will, and you can make nothing but a devils maxim of it. What a man--be he young, old, or middle-aged--sows, that, and nothing else, shall he reap. The one only thing to do with wild oats is to put them carefully into the hottest part of the fire, and get them burnt to dust, every seed of them. If you sow them, no matter in what ground, up they will come, with long, tough roots like couch-grass, and luxuriant stalks and leaves, assure as there is a sun in heaven--a crop which it turns ones heart cold to think of. The devil, too, whose special crop they are, will see that they thrive; and you, and nobody else, will have to reap them; and no common reaping will get them out of the soil, which must be dug down deep again and again. Well for you if, with all your care, you can make the ground sweet again by your dying day. Boys will be boys is not much better, but that has a true side to it; but this encouragement to the sowing of wild oats is simply devilish, for it means that a young man is to give way to the temptations and follow the lusts of his age. What are we to do with the wild oats of manhood and old age--with ambition, overreaching, the false weights, hardness, suspicion, avarice--if the wild oats of youth are to be sown, and not burnt? What possible difference can we draw between them? If we may sow the one, why not the other? (Tom Hughes.)
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Pro_22:8. The rod of his anger, or, as Zöckler,…
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Pro_22:8. The rod of his anger, or, as Zöckler, the “staff of his haughtiness.”
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Pro_22:16. Zöckler reads this verse “One oppresseth the poor only to make him rich,” i.e., “the oppression which one practises on a poor man rouses his moral energy, and thus, by means of his tireless industry and his productive labour in his vocation, he works himself out of needy circumstances into actual prosperity.”
Here begins the third main division of the book of Proverbs. (See Introduction.) Its contents are styled in Pro_22:17 “The words of wise men,” and they differ from the second division in consisting for the most part of much longer sentences, comprising, as a general rule, two verses, but sometimes many more. Zöckler remarks that “there is prevalent everywhere the minutely hortatory, or, in turn, admonitory style, rather than that which is descriptive and announces facts.” Delitzsch and other modern Bible students infer from Pro_22:17 that this portion of the book contains “no inconsiderable number of utterances of wise men of Solomon’s time.” (See Introduction to the Book of Proverbs, Lange’s Commentary.)
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro_22:8
A WORTHLESS SEED AND A ROTTEN STAFF
I. The seed sown. It is iniquity. All kinds of deeds and every manner of dealing that are out of harmony with the principles of justice are acts of iniquity. The least deviation from the path of moral right is in its measure an iniquitous step. Sowing iniquity is an expression that covers very much ground, and includes many degrees of moral wrong, from the withholding of the smallest act of justice to the inflicting of the greatest act of injustice. Now, whenever a man deliberately and knowingly does either the one or the other he does it with a purpose. He has an end in view as much as the farmer has when he sows seed in the field. Men do not generally act unjustly and commit crime out of mere love of sin—they generally expect and desire to gain something by it that they think worth having. Solomon here declares that they will be disappointed. He has before dwelt upon the retribution that will follow sin, he is here speaking of its deceptive character. Men do not get from it what they expect—they are disappointed either of the harvest or in it. This has been the experience of all sowers of iniquity in the world since Eve cast in the first seed. In a certain sense she got what she was promised, but how different the crop from what she hoped for. She “reaped vanity.”
II. The staff depended upon. Haughtiness or pride. (See Critical Notes.) This pride of heart and haughtiness of demeanour is born of a man’s imagining that he has gained for himself a position and a name that will defy the changes and vicissitudes of life. This idea bears him up; he leans upon it, as men lean upon a rod or staff. The rich man often makes a staff of his riches, and uses it to “rule over the poor,” as in Pro_22:7. The man of talent sometimes makes his talent a staff, and walks among his intellectual inferiors with a proud and haughty step. The great conqueror says in his heart, “I will ascend unto heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God … I will be like the Most High” (Isa_14:13), and with the rod of his power he smites the nations and tramples upon the rights of his fellow-creatures. But all these rods of haughtiness shall be broken, and those who lean upon them shall find they have been trusting to a broken reed, and the objects of their oppression shall say unto them, “Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?”
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
The proverb takes two terms for iniquity, one meaning crookedness, the other meaning nothingness. It paints one as only breeding the other. It intends a positive law. Wheat breeds wheat. So iniquity breeds only worthlessness. A man may live a thousand years and yet the harvest will be unvarying. And then to meet the fact that the dominion that his ambition gives does make him ruler over the saints themselves, he employs a verb which expresses high action, but action that exhausts itself. Its literal sense is to consume. The idea is as of a fever which wears down the patient and itself together.… The impenitent seem to have the whole “rod” or sceptre, of our planet, the true solution is this, that the “rod” is just budding out its strength.—Miller.
Often may oppressors prosper for a time. God may use them as his chastening rod. But the seed-time of iniquity will end in the harvest of vanity; and when they have done their work, the rod of their anger shall fail. Such was Sennacherib in olden time, such was Napoleon in our own day. Never has the world seen so extensive a sower of iniquity, never a more abundant harvest of vanity. The rod of anger was he to the nations of the earth. But how utterly was the rod suffered to fail, when the purpose was accomplished! despoiled of empire, shorn of greatness—an exiled captive.—Bridges.
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v. 8. He that soweth iniquity, unrighteousness and wickedness in any form, shall reap vanity, misfortune and calamity; and the rod of his anger shall fail, the staff of his haughty wrath with which he so often tried to intimidate men, is bound to vanish, his tyranny will come to an abrupt end.
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