SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:7
¶ Cuando muere el hombre impío, perece su esperanza; y la esperanza de los malos perecerá.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:7
Verse 7. When a wicked man dieth ] HOPE is a great blessing to man in his present state of trial and suffering; because it leads him to expect a favourable termination of his ills. But hope was not made for the wicked; and yet they are the very persons that most abound in it! They hope to be saved, and get at last to the kingdom of God; though they have their face towards perdition, and refuse to turn. But their hope goes no farther than the grave. There the wicked man's expectation is cut off, and his hope perishes. But to the saint, the penitent, and the cross-bearers in general, what a treasure is hope! What a balm through life!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish , etc.] His expectation of a longer life, of getting more riches, attaining to more honour, enjoying more pleasure here, and of having happiness hereafter, and of being delivered from wrath to come; he will then find, when he comes to die, that his expectations in this world are vain, and those which respect happiness in another world are ill-grounded; or when he dies, the expectation of others that depended on him, trusted in him, and looked for great things from him, will then be at an end; and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth ; which is as the giving up of the ghost, and expires when a man does; it is only in this life, or however it ceases when that does; he has no hope in his death, as the righteous man has; if he does not live without hope in the world, he has none when he goes out of it, or that will be of any use unto him: moreover, the hope of “unjust” men to oppress and injure others ceases when they die, ( Job 3:17). The word rendered unjust men is by some understood of strength, substance, riches; and so the meaning may be, that such a hope that is placed in strength and riches perishes at death. Jarchi interprets it of children, which are a man’s substance; as if the sense was, that the hope of the children of such persons is then cut off.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7 - When a godly man dies, all his fears vanish; but when a wicked ma dies, his hopes vanish.
Original Hebrew
במות 4194 אדם 120 רשׁע 7563 תאבד 6 תקוה 8615 ותוחלת 8431 אונים 205 אבדה׃ 6
