Proverbs 23:18
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the LORD all day long.
19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Proverbs 24:14so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
Jeremiah 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Romans 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Hebrews 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a 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 →