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Proverbs 11:7

When the wicked die, all their hopes are lost; everything they thought they could do comes to nothing.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Character;   Death;   Injustice;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Disappointment;   Expectation;   Expectation-Disappointment;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   Hope;   Perishing;   Unjustness;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Character of the Wicked;   Death of the Wicked, the;   Injustice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the wicked person dies,his expectation comes to nothing,and hope placed in wealth vanishes.
Hebrew Names Version
When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, And expectation of power comes to nothing.
King James Version
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
English Standard Version
When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.
New American Standard Bible
When a wicked person dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong people perishes.
New Century Version
When the wicked die, hope dies with them; their hope in riches will come to nothing.
New English Translation
When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.
Amplified Bible
When the wicked man dies, his expectation will perish; And the hope of [godless] strong men perishes.
World English Bible
When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, And expectation of power comes to nothing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When a wicked man dieth, his hope perisheth, and the hope of the vniust shall perish.
Legacy Standard Bible
When a wicked man dies, his hope will perish,And the expectation of vigorous men perishes.
Berean Standard Bible
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
Contemporary English Version
When the wicked die, their hopes die with them.
Complete Jewish Bible
When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; what he hopes for from evil comes to nothing.
Darby Translation
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish; and the hope of evil [men] perisheth.
George Lamsa Translation
When a wicked man dies, his expectation perishes; and the hope of the evil doers perishes.
Good News Translation
When the wicked die, their hope dies with them. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.
Lexham English Bible
With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.
Literal Translation
In the death of a wicked man, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of the unjust shall be lost.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When an vngodly man dyeth, his hope is gone, the confydence of riches shal perish.
American Standard Version
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.
Bible in Basic English
At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of strength perisheth.
King James Version (1611)
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of vniust men perisheth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When an vngodly man dyeth, his hope is gone: the confidence of riches shall perishe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.
English Revised Version
When a wicked man dieth his expectation shall perish: and the hope of iniquity perisheth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne a wickid man is deed, noon hope schal be ferther; and abidyng of bisy men schal perische.
Update Bible Version
When [a] wicked man dies, [his] expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perishes.
Webster's Bible Translation
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.
New King James Version
When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of the unjust perishes.
New Living Translation
When the wicked die, their hopes die with them, for they rely on their own feeble strength.
New Life Bible
When a sinful man dies, his hope dies with him, and all his power comes to nothing.
New Revised Standard
When the wicked die, their hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nothing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the lawless man dieth, his expectation, perisheth, and, the hope of strong men, hath vanished.
Douay-Rheims Bible
When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.
Revised Standard Version
When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.
Young's Literal Translation
In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.
THE MESSAGE
When the wicked die, that's it— the story's over, end of hope.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong men perishes.

Contextual Overview

7 When the wicked die, all their hopes are lost; everything they thought they could do comes to nothing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 10:28, Proverbs 14:32, Exodus 15:9, Exodus 15:10, Job 8:13, Job 8:14, Job 11:20, Psalms 146:4, Ezekiel 28:9, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 112:10 - desire Proverbs 11:23 - expectation John 8:21 - and shall die

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Now let's make humans who will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth."
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever."
Genesis 10:5
All the people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. The people separated and went to different countries according to languages, families, and nations.
Genesis 10:20
All these people were descendants of Ham. They are arranged by families, languages, countries, and nations.
Genesis 10:32
This is the list of the families from Noah's sons. They are arranged according to their nations. From these families came all the people who spread across the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:2
Then people began to move from the East. They found a plain in the land of Babylonia and stayed there to live.
Genesis 11:4
Then the people said, "Let's build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth."
Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower.
Genesis 11:11
After that Shem lived 500 years. He had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, his son Shelah was born.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish,.... 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 h 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.

h תוחלת אונים "expectatio virium", Gejerus; "spes in viribus collocata", Michaelis; "spes confidentium in divitiis", Munster; so some in Vatablus; "divitiarum", Pagniaus, Baynus; "roborum", Montanus, Amama.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Significant words, as showing the belief that when the righteous died, his “expectation” (i. e., his hope for the future) did not perish. The second clause is rendered by some, “the expectation that brings sorrow.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 11:7. 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!


 
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