Proverbs 13:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12 —

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Cross-References

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John 16:22
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.
Proverbs 13:19
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Psalms 119:81-83
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. …
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement Graces Hope Life

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. desire cometh--is realized. a tree of life--or, “cause of happiness.”