Proverbs 13:13
Whoever is despising the word is destroyed for it, || And whoever is fearing the command is repaid.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
In Context
12Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, || And a tree of life [is] the coming desire.
14The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, || To turn aside from snares of death.
Cross References
Numbers 15:31because he despised the word of YHWH and has broken His command, that person is certainly cut off; his iniquity [is] on him.”
2 Chronicles 36:16but they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, until the going up of the fury of YHWH against His people—until there is no healing.
Psalms 19:11Also—Your servant is warned by them, “In keeping them [is] a great reward.”
Psalms 115:13He blesses those fearing YHWH, || The small with the great.
Proverbs 1:25And you slight all my counsel, || And you have not desired my reproof.
Proverbs 13:21Evil pursues sinners, || And good repays the righteous.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:13
12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Note, 1. Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation, though not in the thing itself by a denial, yet in the time of it by a delay: Hope deferred makes the heart sick and languishing, fretful and peevish; but hope quite dashed kills the heart, and the more high the expectation was raised the more cutting is the frustration of it. It is therefore our wisdom not to promise ourselves any great… Read the whole commentary →