Proverbs 11:23 {24}
Good News Translation
What good people want always results in good; when the wicked get what they want, everyone is angry.

New Revised Standard Version
The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath.

Contemporary English Version
Good people want what is best, but troublemakers hope to stir up trouble.

New American Bible
The desire of the just ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

desire

Psalm 10:17 The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Psalm 37:4 Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

Psalm 39:7,8 And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee. . . .

Psalm 119:5,10 O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. . . .

Isaiah 26:9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Jeremiah 17:16 And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

expectation

Proverbs 11:7 The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 10:28 The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. . . .

Hebrews 10:27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

Context
Dishonest Scales
22The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation. 23Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.24The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.…
Cross References
Romans 2:8
But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

Romans 2:9
Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

Proverbs 10:28
The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Proverbs 11:24
The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

Proverbs 11:22
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