Proverbs 23:18 (BSB)

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:17-18: 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 (Psa 73:3), nay, it is their poison," Pro 1:32.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:18: For surely there is an end,.... Both of the prosperity of the wicked, which is but for a short time; and of the afflictions of the righteous, which are but as it were for a moment; and therefore there is no reason to envy the one, nor to be fretful under the other; the end to a good man will be peace and prosperity for...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:18: an end--or, "hereafter," another time, when apparent inequalities shall be adjusted (compare Psa 37:28-38).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:18: For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off. (h) The prosperity of the wicked will not continue.