Proverbs 10:24
in Proverbs 10What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
BSB
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ASV
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
KJV
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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This verse in Proverbs 10
Commentary
6 notes on this verseWhat the wicked fears shall come upon him, etc. He speaks of that wicked one who sins knowingly. Therefore, the wicked fear to see the strict judge; the righteous desire to be dissolved and be with Christ: he, lest he be deprived of earthly joys …
This site's exposition
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver
on Proverbs 10:20-25
The unit weighs the tongue: “The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment”. “The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it” answers the wealth sayings of the chapter's opening.
This site's exposition
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him
Each man receives what he has been looking toward, the wicked his dread and the righteous his desire. Bede names them: the wicked man dreads the face of the strict judge, and the righteous long to depart and be with Christ. Both expectations come true.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him,.... What he dreads in his own mind will be his unhappy case, sooner or later it comes upon him; his fear of distresses, calamities, and judgments in this life, and of eternal wrath and vengeance hereafter; for the most profligate and abandoned wretches, the greatest atheists, who endeavour to work themselves up to a disbelief of a God and a future state, have at times their frights and fears about these things; and as are their fears of God, so will his wrath be, Psa 90:
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
The fear of the wicked - The wicked is full of fears and alarms; and all that he has dreaded and more than he has dreaded, shall come upon him. The righteous is always desiring more of the salvation of God, and God will exceed even his utmost desires.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The fear - i. e., The thing feared (compare the marginal reference). Shall be granted - Or, He (Yahweh) giveth the desire of the righteous.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מְגוֹרַ֣ת | megorat | [the] fear of | H4034 → | |
| רָ֭שָׁע | rasho' | a wicked [person] | H7563 → | 263 times |
| הִ֣יא | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| תְבוֹאֶ֑נּוּ | tevoenu | it will come to him | H935 → | 2568 times |
| וְתַאֲוַ֖ת | vetaavat | and [the] desire of | H8378 → | 20 times |
| צַדִּיקִ֣ים | tzadikim | righteous [people] | H6662 → | 206 times |
| יִתֵּֽן׃ | yiten | someone will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
מְגוֹרַ֣ת[the] fear of
megoratH4034 →
רָ֭שָׁעa wicked [person]
rasho'H7563 →263 times
הִ֣יאit
hi'H1931 →1879 times
תְבוֹאֶ֑נּוּit will come to him
tevoenuH935 →2568 times
וְתַאֲוַ֖תand [the] desire of
vetaavatH8378 →20 times
צַדִּיקִ֣יםrighteous [people]
tzadikimH6662 →206 times
יִתֵּֽן׃someone will give
yitenH5414 →2011 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
it leads to
- John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Psalms 107:9
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- John 6:48–58
I am the bread of life.
- Psalms 145:19
He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
- John 4:14
Through
Psalms 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Ephesians 3:16–20
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
- John 15:7
If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Psalms 37:4
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.