Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the just is entirely good. The anticipation of the impious is fury.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
In Context
22A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.
Psalms 39:7Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require.
Proverbs 11:7When the impious man is dead, there will no longer be any hope. And the expectation of the anxious will perish.
Proverbs 13:2From the fruit of his own mouth, a man shall be satisfied with good things. But the soul of betrayers is iniquity.
Jeremiah 17:16But I am not troubled; I am following you as my shepherd. And I have not desired the day of man, as you know. That which has gone forth from my lips has been right in your sight.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:23
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. By discretion here we must understand religion and grace, a true taste and relish (so the word signifies) of the honours and pleasures that attend an unspotted virtue; so that a woman without discretion is a woman of a loose and dissolute conversation; and then observe, 1. It is taken for granted here that beauty or comeliness of body is as a jewel of gold, a thing very valuable, and, where there is wisdom and grace to guard… Read the whole commentary →