Proverbs 20:22

22 Say not thou, I will take vengeance, but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

Proverbs 20:22 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 20:22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil
With evil; do an injury to one that has done one to you; private revenge is not to be taken, but should be left to God, to whom vengeance belongs, ( Deuteronomy 32:35 Deuteronomy 32:41 ) ; [but] wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee;
commit thyself and cause to God; leave it with him to avenge thy wrongs; wait upon him in the way of thy duty, and wait his own time to do thee justice; he will at the proper season, and in his own way, save thee from thine enemy, and make a righteous retribution to him.

Proverbs 20:22 In-Context

20 Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22 Say not thou, I will take vengeance, but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23 Double weights are an abomination unto the LORD, and a false balance is not good.
24 Man’s steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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