PROVERBS CHAPTER 13.
V. 20. He that walketh with wise men, making them his companions and listening to their counsel, shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed, or, lie who attendeth fools tendeth to folly,” and therefore becomes base, partaking of their meanness.
V. 21. Evil pursueth sinners, as their well-merited punishment; but to the righteous good shall be repaid, that is, God rewards him in mercy for his efforts on the way of sanctification.
V. 22. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children, his estate being transmitted to them complete, as a result of God’s blessing upon him; and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just, the latter eventually becoming the possessor of that which the sinner squanders.