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As I see it, those who plow mischief
    and sow trouble will reap them.

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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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Those who sow iniquity reap calamity,(A)
    and the rod used in anger will fail.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Agricultural metaphors express the failure of malicious actions. In the first line, bad actions are seeds yielding trouble. In the second line, “the rod” is a flail used to beat grains as in Is 28:27.

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

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Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(A)

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But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows, because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit.(A)

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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for 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.

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