Proverbs 11:7,8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish All his hope and felicity, which he placed wholly in earthly things, are lost and gone with him; and the hope of unjust men, &c. This clause, according to this translation, is a mere repetition of the former: but the word אונים, here rendered unjust men, is generally translated strengths, or powers, as indeed it properly means. Divers, therefore, interpret the clause, The hope of their strengths, that is, which they place in their riches, children, friends, and other carnal props and defences, perisheth. So this is added by way of aggravation. The righteous are delivered out of trouble When, perhaps, he hardly expected it, or even was ready to despair of it; and the wicked cometh in his stead Is, by God's providence, brought into the same miseries, which the wicked either designed against, or had formerly inflicted on the righteous, but which were now lately removed from them. Thus Mordecai was saved from the gallows, Daniel from the lions' den, and Peter from the prison, and their persecutors came in their stead. Israel was delivered out of the Red sea, and the Egyptians drowned in it.