Proverbs 23:18 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 23:18

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

KJV

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ASV

For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

WEB

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

YLT

For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

DBT

for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Hebrews 10:35
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Psalms 9:18
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Philippians 1:20
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Proverbs 24:14
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: " Here, my son, and be wise,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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