Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but (when) the desire cometh, (it is) a tree of life - (Proverbs 3:18.) True wisdom admonishes us to set our hopes, not on the unsatisfying things of earth, but on that which, though our hope be exercised with long waiting, will not disappoint us in the end, but will be as "the tree of life" in the midst of the "Paradise of God" (Revelation 2:7; Habakkuk 2:3; Hebrews 10:37).