When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

righteousness

Genesis 30:33 And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.

Genesis 31:37 And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.

1 Samuel 12:3,4 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you. . . .

but

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

1 Kings 2:32,33,44 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda; . . .

Psalm 7:16 His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.