Proverbs 11:24
There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.
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23The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:10You shall surely give him, and yours heart shall not be grieved when you give unto him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put yours hand unto.
Psalms 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Proverbs 19:17He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.
Haggai 1:6All of you have sown much, and bring in little; all of you eat, but all of you have not enough; all of you drink, but all of you are not filled with drink; all of you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai 2:16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat in order to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:24
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. This tells us what the desire and expectation of the righteous and of the wicked are and how they will prove, what they would have and what they shall have. 1. The righteous would have good, only good; all they desire is that it may go well with all about them; they wish no hurt to any, but happiness to all; as to themselves, their desire is not to gratify any evil lust, but to obtain the favour of a good God and to preserve… Read the whole commentary →