18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-18)Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: “ Let not thy heart envy sinners ; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion (Pr. 12:14), nay, it is their poison,” Prov. 1:32. We must not harbour in our hearts any secret discontent at the p…
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