Proverbs 13:12

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Summary

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Hope

When

A tree

Proverbs 3:18

Proverbs 11:30

Revelation 22:2

General references

Proverbs 3:18

Bible References

Hope

As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

When

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou are yet alive.

And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by thee here, praying to LORD.

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word,

And now therefore indeed ye have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no man takes your joy away from you.

A tree

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.

The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.

in the middle of its thoroughfare. And on this side of the river and on that was a tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

General references

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.