Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous [is] only good, || The hope of the wicked [is] transgression.
Literal Standard 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 ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A beautiful woman and stubborn of behavior.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, || All the days of my life, || To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, || And to inquire in His temple.
Psalms 39:7And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.
Psalms 119:10I have sought You with all my heart, || Do not let me err from Your commands.
Proverbs 11:7In the death of a wicked man, hope perishes, || And the expectation of the iniquitous has been lost.
Proverbs 13:2A man eats good from the fruit of the mouth, || And the soul of the treacherous—violence.
Jeremiah 17:16And I did not hurry from feeding after You, || And I have not desired the desperate day, || You have known the produce of my lips, || It has been before Your face,
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 →