Proverbs 10:28 {29}
Good News Translation
The hopes of good people lead to joy, but wicked people can look forward to nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.

Contemporary English Version
If you obey the Lord, you will be happy, but there is no future for the wicked.

New American Bible
The hope of the just brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked perishes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

hope

Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope.

Psalm 73:24-26 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. . . .

Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

but

Proverbs 11:7 The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Job 8:13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Luke 16:23-26 And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom: . . .

Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
27The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish. 28The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.29The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.…
Cross References
Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 11:7
The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 11:23
Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Proverbs 10:27
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