Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
In Context
22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 39:7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dieth his expectation shall perish: and the hope of iniquity perisheth.
Proverbs 13:2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the treacherous shall eat violence.
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy 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 →