Proverbs 10:24

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
fear	מְגוֹרַ֣ת me.go.Rat	H4034	affright · noun, common feminine singular construct
wicked	רָ֭שָׁע Ra.sho'	H7563	morally wrong · noun, common masculine singular absolute
come	תְבוֹאֶ֑נּוּ te.vo.'E.nu	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
desire	וְתַאֲוַ֖ת ve.ta.'a.Vat	H8378	a longing · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
righteous	צַדִּיקִ֣ים tza.di.Kim	H6662	just · adjective, masculine plural absolute
granted	יִתֵּֽן yi.Ten	H5414	to give · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not…
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
1 John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalms 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:24-25

It is here said, and said again, to the righteous, that it shall be well with them, and to the wicked, Woe to them; and these are set the one over against the other, for their mutual illustration. I. It shall be as ill with the wicked as they can fear, and as well with the righteous as they can desire. 1. The wicked, it is true, buoy themselves up sometimes in their wickedness with vain hopes which will deceive them, but at other times they cannot but be haunted with just fears, and those fears shall come upon them; the God they provoke will be every whit as terrible as they, when they are under their greatest damps, apprehend him to be. As is thy fear, so is thy wrath, Psa 90:11. Wicked men…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:24

it--the very thing. The wicked get dreaded evil; the righteous, desired good.

John Gill on Proverbs 10:24

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, Psalm 90:11. Jarchi illustrates this in the instance of the builders of Babel, who were afraid of being scattered upon the face of the earth, which thing feared came upon them through…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:24

21 The lips of the righteous edify many; But fools die through want of understanding.

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The Church Fathers

What 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 and punished with eternal vengeance; they, lest their pilgrimage be prolonged and they receive the rewards for which they have strived. But to both, what they fear in their heart will come upon them.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Fear, Unholy · Shall be realised — Shall be realised
Righteousness · They who walk in, and follow: Have their desires granted — They who walk in, and follow: Have their desires granted

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:24-25

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:24

John Gill on Proverbs 10:24

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:24

Tyndale Open Study Notes

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:24-25

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:24

John Gill on Proverbs 10:24

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:24

Tyndale Open Study Notes

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Rashi on Proverbs 10:24