Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
In Context
11Wealth got by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.
13Whoso despises the word shall be destroyed: but he that fears the commandment shall be rewarded.
Cross References
Genesis 46:30And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are yet alive.
Nehemiah 2:2Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my activities.
Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:12
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. This shows that riches wear as they are won and woven. 1. That which is won ill will never wear well, for a curse attends it which will waste it, and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting well incline them to the like sinful ways of spending: Wealth gotten by vanity will be bestowed upon vanity, and then it will be diminished. That which is got by such employments as are not… Read the whole commentary →