Proverbs 22:8
Good News Translation
If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 4:8 On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Hosea 8:7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Hosea 10:13 You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. . . .

the rod of his anger shall fail

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

Psalm 125:3 For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 10:5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

Isaiah 30:31 For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being struck with the rod.

Context
A Good Name
7The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth. 8He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.9He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.…
Cross References
Job 4:8
On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Psalm 125:3
For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

Proverbs 1:31
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Hosea 8:7
For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Hosea 10:13
You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Proverbs 22:7
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