Proverbs 10:24
What the impious fear will overwhelm them. The just shall be given their desire.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
In Context
23The foolish work wickedness as if in jest. But wisdom is prudence to a man.
Cross References
Job 15:21The sound of terror is always in his ears; and when there is peace, he always suspects treason.
Psalms 37:4There is no health in my flesh before the face of your wrath. There is no peace for my bones before the face of my sins.
Isaiah 66:4Therefore, I also will choose their illusions, and I will lead over them the things that they feared. For I called, and there was no one who would respond. I have spoken, and they have not listened. And they have done evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, they have chosen.
Daniel 4:28And while the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice rushed down from heaven, “To you, O king Nebuchadnezzar, it is said: ‘Your kingdom will be taken away from you,
John 14:18I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you.
Hebrews 10:27but instead, a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire that shall consume its adversaries.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:24
23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. Here is, 1. Sin exceedingly sinful: It is as laughter to a fool to do mischief; it is as natural to him, and as pleasant, as it is to a man to laugh. Wickedness is his Isaac (that is the word here); it is his delight, his darling, and that in which he pleases himself. He makes a laughing matter of sin. When he is warned not to sin, from the consideration of the law of God and the revelation of his wrath against sin, he makes a jest… Read the whole commentary →