Proverbs 11:23 - The Scriptures 1998

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good, The expectancy of the wrong is wrath.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good: But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ The desire of the [consistently] righteous brings only good, but the expectation of the wicked brings wrath.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good; But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Common English Bible

²³ The desires of the righteous end up well, but the expectations of the wicked bring wrath.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ The desire of the just is entirely good. The anticipation of the impious is fury.

Proverbs 11:23 Cross References

Psalm 10:17

יהוה, You have heard the desire of the lowly ones; You prepare their heart; You incline Your ear,

Psalm 119:10

I have sought You with all my heart; Let me not stray from Your commands!

Psalm 119:5

Oh, that my ways were established To guard Your laws!

Psalm 27:4

One matter I asked of יהוה  – this I seek: To dwell in the House of יהוה  All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of יהוה, And to inquire in His Hĕ

Psalm 37:4

And delight yourself in יהוה, And let Him give you the desires of your heart.

Proverbs 10:28

The righteous look forward to joy, But the expectancy of the wrong ones perish.

Proverbs 11:24

There is one who scatters, yet increases more. And one who withholds more than is right, But it comes to poverty.

Proverbs 11:7

When a wrong man dies, expectancy perishes, And the ambition of the wicked shall be lost.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are right-ruling, The counsels of the wrong are deceit.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of the mouth a man eats the good, But the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Isaiah 26:9

My being longs for You in the night, also, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly. For when Your right-rulings are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.

Jeremiah 17:16

And I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows You, nor have I longed for the desperately sick day. You Yourself have known, that which came out of my lips was before You.

Matthew 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they shall be filled.

Hebrews 10:27

but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.