Proverbs 23:18
For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
In Context
17Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.
Proverbs 24:14So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.
Jeremiah 29:11For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you — an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.
Romans 6:21what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.
Hebrews 10:35Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:18-19
Parental Advice. 17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. 18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: " Let not thy heart envy sinners; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion ( Ps. xii. 14 ), nay, it is their poison," Prov. i.… Read the whole commentary →