Proverbs 23:18
For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day.
19Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever. 1
Proverbs 24:14Thus shall you perceive wisdom in your soul: for if you find it, your end shall be good, and hope shall not fail you.
Jeremiah 29:11for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.
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 →