12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
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And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. …
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12)Note, 1. Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation, though not in the thing itself by a denial, yet in the time of it by a delay: Hope deferred makes the heart sick and languishing, fretful and peevish; but hope quite dashed kills the heart, and the more high the expectation was raised the more cutting is the frustration of it. It is therefore our wisdom not to promi…
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