Proverbs 11:23

When the things that righteous people want happen, it brings good to them and to others, but when the wicked get what they want, it causes everyone else to become angry.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

In Context

22It is ◄ unsuitable/not proper/disgusting► for a beautiful woman not to know what is right to do, like [SIM] it is unsuitable/disgusting for a pig to have a gold ring in its snout/nose.

24Some people give their money generously to poor people, but they become richer in spite of that, and some people hold tightly to their money, but they still become poor in spite of that.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:4There is one thing that I have requested from Yahweh; this is the one thing that I desire: That I may worship in Yahweh’s house/temple every day of my life, and see that Yahweh is wonderful and inquire what he wants me to do.

Psalms 39:7So now, Yahweh, if I expect [RHQ] to receive blessings from other people, I will be disappointed. You are the only one from whom I confidently expect to receive blessings.

Psalms 119:10I try to serve you with my entire inner being; do not allow me to ◄wander away from obeying/disobey► ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.

Proverbs 11:7When wicked people die, they cannot confidently expect to receive anything that is good; they expect that their money will help/save them, but it will not.

Proverbs 13:2Good people are rewarded [IDM] for the good things [MET] that they say, but those who desire to deceive others are very eager to act violently.

Jeremiah 17:16Yahweh, you appointed me to take care of your people like a shepherd takes care of his sheep [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not previously wanted this time of disaster to come to people who ridicule me. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] to your people.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:23

22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. By discretion here we must understand religion and grace, a true taste and relish (so the word signifies) of the honours and pleasures that attend an unspotted virtue; so that a woman without discretion is a woman of a loose and dissolute conversation; and then observe, 1. It is taken for granted here that beauty or comeliness of body is as a jewel of gold, a thing very valuable, and, where there is wisdom and grace to guard… Read the whole commentary →

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