Proverbs 10:24

“The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, etc.] What he dreads in his own mind will be his unhappy case, sooner or later it comes upon him; his fear of distresses, calamities, and judgments in this life, and of eternal wrath and vengeance hereafter; for the most profligate and abandoned wretches, the greatest atheists, who endeavour to work themselves up to a disbelief of a God and a future state, have at times their frights and fears about these things; and as are their fears of God, so will his wrath be, (<199011>Psalm 90:11). Jarchi illustrates this in the instance of the builders of Babel, who were afraid of being scattered upon the face of the earth, which thing feared came upon…”

“it--the very thing. The wicked get dreaded evil; the righteous, desired good.”

“The fear - i. e., The thing feared (compare the marginal reference). Shall be granted - Or, He (Yahweh) giveth the desire of the righteous. return to 'Top of Page'”

“fear: Job 3:25, Job 15:21; Heb 10:27 the desire: Psa 21:2, Psa 37:4, Psa 145:19; Mat 5:6; Joh 14:18, Joh 16:24; Jo1 5:14, Jo1 5:15 Proverbs 10:25”

“24 That of which the godless is afraid cometh upon him, And what the righteous desires is granted to him. The formation of the clause 24a is like the similar proverb, Pro 11:27; the subject-idea has there its expression in the genitival annexum, of which Gen 9:6 furnishes the first example; in this passage before us it stands at the beginning, and is, as in Pro 10:22, emphatically repeated with היא. מגורה, properly the turning oneself away, hence shrinking back in terror; here, as Isa 66:4, of the object of fear, parallel to תּאוה, wishing, of the object of the wish. In 24b Ewald renders יתּן as adj. from יתן (whence איתן ecne), after the form פּקּח, and translates: yet to the righteous…”