Proverbs 23:18
For surely there is an acharit (latter end, future), 1 and thine tikvah shall not be cut off. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Let not thine lev envy chatta'im, 1 but be thou in the Yirat Hashem kol hayom. 1
19Hear thou, beni (my son), and be chacham, 1 and guide thine lev straight on the derech. 1
Cross References
Psalms 9:18The resha'im shall be turned into Sheol, 1 and all the Goyim that forget Elohim. 1
Proverbs 24:14So shall the knowledge of chochmah be unto thy nefesh; 1 when thou hast found it, then there shall be an acharit (latter end, future), 1 and thy tikvah (hope) shall not be cut off. 1
Jeremiah 29:11For I know the machshavot (thoughts, plans) that I think toward you, saith Hashem, machshavot shalom, and not of ra'ah, to give you an acharit (future) and a tikvah (hope).
Romans 6:21What p'ri for Hashem did you produce then? Things for which you now have bushah (shame), for the end result of those things is mavet (death).
Hebrews 10:35Do not discard, then, your bitachon (confident trust) which has gadol sachar (great 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 →