Proverbs 11:8
Yahweh rescues righteous people from their troubles/difficulties; instead, it is the wicked who will have troubles.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
In Context
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for hanging Mordecai! And then ◄the king’s anger cooled off/the king was no longer so angry►.
Proverbs 21:18Wicked people bring on themselves the sufferings that they were trying to cause righteous people to experience [DOU].
Daniel 6:23The king was extremely happy, and he commanded his servants to lift me out of the pit. When they did that, they saw that the lions had not wounded me at all. God had protected me because I trusted in him.
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 →