Proverbs 13:12
Hope, when it is delayed, afflicts the soul. The arrival of the desired is a tree of life.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 46:30And the father said to Joseph, “Now I will die happy, because I have seen your face, and I am leaving you behind alive.”
Nehemiah 2:2And the king said to me: “Why is your expression sad, though you do not appear to be sick? This is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in your heart.” And I was struck with an exceedingly great fear.
Psalms 40:2Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
Psalms 69:3May those who seek my soul be confounded and awed.
Psalms 143:7Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the just one is the tree of life. And whoever receives souls is wise.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:12
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. This shows that riches wear as they are won and woven. 1. That which is won ill will never wear well, for a curse attends it which will waste it, and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting well incline them to the like sinful ways of spending: Wealth gotten by vanity will be bestowed upon vanity, and then it will be diminished. That which is got by such employments as are not… Read the whole commentary →