Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous [is] only good, The hope of the wicked [is] transgression.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
In Context
22A ring of gold in the nose of a sow — A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of Jehovah — it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
Psalms 39:7And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.
Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.
Proverbs 11:7In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.
Proverbs 13:2From the fruit of the mouth a man eateth good, And the soul of the treacherous — violence.
Jeremiah 17:16And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou — Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,
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 →