Proverbs 11:8

“The righteous is delivered out of trouble, etc.] One after another he comes into, if not in this life, yet at death; which is to him a perfect deliverance out of all tribulation; (see <660714>Revelation 7:14); or when the wicked die, as in (<201107>Proverbs 11:7), then the righteous are delivered from the trouble they gave them, or designed to give them; though it seems rather to design deliverance from trouble in the first sense, since it follows, and the wicked cometh in his stead; as Haman did in the room of Mordecai, and was hanged upon the gallows the other was delivered from, and he had prepared for him, (<170710>Esther 7:10); and as Daniel was delivered from the lion’s den, and his…”

“Perhaps the trouble prepared by the wicked, and which he inherits (compare Pro 11:6).”

“Cometh - Into trouble. Proverbs 11:9”

“Pro 21:18; Est 7:9, Est 7:10; Isa 43:3, Isa 43:4; Dan 6:23, Dan 6:24 Proverbs 11:9”

“8 The righteous is delivered from trouble, And the godless comes in his stead. The succession of the tenses gives the same meaning as when, periodizing, we say: while the one is delivered, the other, on the contrary, falls before the same danger. נחלץ (vid., under Isa 58:11) followed by the historical tense, the expression of the principal fact, is the perfect. The statement here made clothes itself after the manner of a parable in the form of history. It is true there are not wanting experiences of an opposite kind (from that here stated), because divine justice manifests itself in this world only as a prelude, but not perfectly and finally; but the poet considers this, that as a rule…”