Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
In Context
22A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.
Psalms 39:7Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:
Proverbs 11:7When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.
Proverbs 13:2Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.
Jeremiah 17:16And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy 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 →