Proverbs 11:7 {8}
Good News Translation
When the wicked die, their hope dies with them. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
When the wicked die, their hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nothing.

Contemporary English Version
When the wicked die, their hopes die with them.

New American Bible
When a person dies, hope is destroyed; expectation pinned on wealth is destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 10:28 The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Exodus 15:9,10 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them. . . .

Job 8:13,14 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: . . .

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Psalm 146:4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

Ezekiel 28:9 Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Context
Dishonest Scales
6When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish. 7The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.8The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.…
Cross References
Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 8:14
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 10:28
The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Proverbs 11:8
The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

Proverbs 11:6
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