Proverbs 10:23

Foolish people ◄have fun/enjoy► doing what is wrong, but wise/sensible people enjoy doing what is wise.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

In Context

22Yahweh blesses some people by enabling them to become rich, and working hard will not make them to become richer (OR, and he will not also cause them to become sad).

24Righteous people will get the good things that they want/desire, but what wicked people are afraid of is what will happen to them.

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Cross References

Proverbs 2:14They enjoy doing what is wrong; they like to do what is evil and to deceive people.

Proverbs 15:21Foolish people are happy to continually act foolishly; those who have good sense do what is right.

Proverbs 26:18Crazy people who shoot burning arrows to kill people

Ecclesiastes 11:9You young people, be happy while you are still young. Enjoy [IDM] doing the things that you want to do. But do not forget that some day God will judge you concerning all the things that you do.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:23

The Advantages of the Righteous. 22 The blessing of the Lord , it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Worldly wealth is that which most men have their hearts very much upon, but they generally mistake both in the nature of the thing they desire and in the way by which they hope to obtain it; we are therefore told here, 1. What that wealth is which is indeed desirable, not having abundance only, but having it and no sorrow with it, no disquieting care to get and keep it, no vexation of spirit in the… Read the whole commentary →

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