Proverbs 23:18
For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, || But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
19Hear, my son, and be wise, || And make your heart blessed in the way,
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy is not forgotten forever, || [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.
Proverbs 24:14So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to your soul, || If you have found that there is a posterity || And your hope is not cut off.
Jeremiah 29:11For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking toward you—a declaration of YHWH; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give posterity and hope to you.
Romans 6:21What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [is] death.
Hebrews 10:35You may not cast away, then, your boldness, which has great repayment of reward,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:18-19
Parental Advice. 17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. 18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: " Let not thy heart envy sinners; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion ( Ps. xii. 14 ), nay, it is their poison," Prov. i.… Read the whole commentary →