28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. …
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-28)Observe, 1. Religion lengthens men’s lives and crowns their hopes. What man is he that loves life ? Let him fear God , and that will secure him from many things that would prejudice his life, and secure to him life enough in this world and eternal life in the other; the fear of the Lord will add days more than was expected, will add them endlessly, will prolong them to the days of eternity. What m…
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