Proverbs 11:7

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When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to naught.

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The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to naught.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.

When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?

The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked man comes to naught.

The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.

The Lord is a stronghold to him whose way is upright, but destruction to evildoers.