Proverbs 11:24
There are some who scatter their own, and make it more: 1 And there are some also who gather, yet have less. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
23All the desire of the righteous is good: 1 But the hope of the ungodly shall perish. 1
25Every sincere soul is blessed: 1 But a passionate man is not graceful. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:10Thou shalt surely give to him, and thou shalt lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and thou shalt not grudge in thy heart as thou givest to him, because on this account the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all things on which thou shalt lay thy hand.
Psalms 112:9Who settles the barren woman in a house, 1 As a mother rejoicing over children.
Proverbs 19:17He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; 1 And he will recompense to him according to his gift. 1
Ecclesiastes 11:1Send forth thy bread upon the face of the water: 1 For thou shalt find it after many days. 1
Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.
Haggai 2:16When ye cast into the corn bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, 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 →