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Proverbs 20:22

American Standard Version

Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.

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Proverbs 20:22 in other translations

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Proverbs 20:22 · World English Bible

Proverbs 20:22 in context

  1. 20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  2. 21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
  3. 22Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.
  4. 23Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.
  5. 24A man’s goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?

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