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Proverbs 11:23

The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.

Verse in context — Proverbs 11

21

[Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

22

[As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.

23

The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.

24

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

25

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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