Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
In Context
22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 39:7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psalms 119:10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.
Proverbs 13:2By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
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 →