Proverbs 28:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When the wicked rise, &c. See on Proverbs 28:12; but when they perish When wicked men are displaced, degraded, and their power is taken from them; the righteous increase They who are righteous appear again in public, and, being advanced to that power which the wicked rulers have lost, they use their authority to encourage and promote righteousness, and to punish unrighteousness, whereby the number of wicked men is diminished, and the righteous are multiplied.