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Proverbs 11:23

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The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

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  1. Proverbs 11:21

    Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

  2. Proverbs 11:22

    As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

  3. Proverbs 11:24

    There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

  4. Proverbs 11:25

    The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.