Proverbs 11:23
Good people want what's best, but what the wicked hope for ends in death.
Free Bible 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 woman who lacks good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
24If you give generously you receive more, but if you keep back what you should give, you end up poor.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4I only ask the Lord for one thing: I just want to live in the house of the Lord throughout my life, contemplating the Lord's goodness and thinking about his Temple.
Psalms 39:7So Lord, what am I looking for? I put my hope in you.
Psalms 119:10I worship you sincerely; please don't let me stray from your commands.
Proverbs 11:7When a wicked person dies, their hopes die with them; what the godless look forward to is gone.
Proverbs 13:2You'll be rewarded for saying good things, but dishonest people want violence.
Jeremiah 17:16But I haven't been in a hurry to give up being your shepherd. I haven't wanted the time of trouble to come. You know that whatever I said was said in front of you.
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 →