Proverbs 11:8
The good are saved from trouble, while the wicked get into trouble.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
In Context
7When a wicked person dies, their hopes die with them; what the godless look forward to is gone.
9Godless people mouth off and destroy their neighbors, but the good are saved by wisdom.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they impaled Haman on the pole that he had set up for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king died down.
Proverbs 21:18The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.
Daniel 6:23The king was extremely pleased and ordered Daniel brought up from the den. Daniel was lifted up from the den and he was found to have no injuries at all because he had trusted in his God.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:8
7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. Note, 1. Even wicked men, while they live, may keep up a confident expectation of a happiness when they die, or at least a happiness in this world. The hypocrite has his hope, in which he wraps himself as the spider in her web. The worldling expects great matters from his wealth; he calls it goods laid up for many years, and hopes to take his ease in it and to be merry; but in death their expectation will be frustrated:… Read the whole commentary →