Proverbs 11:24
There is a man that scattereth gifts, and yet his wealth is increased: and there is one that withholdeth more than is proper, and still cometh only to want.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23The desire of the righteous is only good: but the hope of the wicked is the wrath [of God].
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; for because of this thing the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all the acquisition of thy hand.
Psalms 112:9He distributeth, he giveth to the needy: his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honor.
Proverbs 19:17He lendeth unto the Lord that is liberal to the poor, and his good deed will he repay unto him.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Cast thy bread upon the face of the waters; for after many days wilt thou find it again.
Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but it doth not satisfy hunger; ye drink, but it doth not appease thirst; ye clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earneth something earneth it for a bag with holes.
Haggai 2:16Since those days were, when one came to a heap of sheaves of twenty [in number], and there were but ten; when one came to the winepress for to draw off fifty measures out of the vat, and there were but twenty.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:24
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. This tells us what the desire and expectation of the righteous and of the wicked are and how they will prove, what they would have and what they shall have. 1. The righteous would have good, only good; all they desire is that it may go well with all about them; they wish no hurt to any, but happiness to all; as to themselves, their desire is not to gratify any evil lust, but to obtain the favour of a good God and to preserve… Read the whole commentary →