Proverbs 11:23 - Exposition

(Comp. Proverbs 10:28 .) The desire of the righteous is only good. They want only what is just and honest, and therefore they obtain their wiches. The expectation of the wicked— that on which they set their hope and heart—is wrath ( Proverbs 11:4 ), is an object of God's wrath. Other commentators, ancient and modern, take the clause to imply that the wishes of evil men, animated by wrath and ill temper, are only satisfied by inflicting injuries on others. Delitzsch would translate ebrah, "excess," "presumption," as in Proverbs 21:24 . But the first interpretation seems most suitable (scrap. Romans 2:8 , Romans 2:9 ). The LXX ; pointing differently, for "wrath" reads "shall perish."