Proverbs 11:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the day of wrath; in the time of God's judgments, when he is executing wrath and vengeance upon sinners. Righteousness, or mercy, as this word is oft rendered; or charity to the poor, which is fitly opposed to riches laid up in store. Delivereth from death; it moveth God to deliver them ofttimes from temporal calamities, and always from eternal death, where such actions are done from a right principle.