King James Version (KJV)
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.
