Proverbs 23:18
For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long.
19Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18The sinners will be turned into Hell: all the Gentiles who have forgotten God.
Proverbs 24:14So, too, is the doctrine of wisdom to your soul. When you have found it, you will have hope in the end, and your hope shall not perish.
Jeremiah 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
Romans 6:21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Hebrews 10:35And so, do not lose your confidence, which has a great reward.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:18-19
Parental Advice. 17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. 18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: " Let not thy heart envy sinners; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion ( Ps. xii. 14 ), nay, it is their poison," Prov. i.… Read the whole commentary →