Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 11:23

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

Either 1 properly so called. So the sense is, His desires are generally and constantly to do good to men, as wicked mens designs are to do hurt, and to execute wrath and hatred against them. Or rather 2. the object, or event, or effect of their desire, as appears from the next Clause, where expectation is clearly put for the object or event of it: And the sense of the Proverb seems to be this, The desires and expectations of the Righteous shall end in their good and happiness, but the desires and expectations of wicked men shall be sadly disappointed, and end in the wrath of God, and their utter ruine.