Proverbs 11:7

WEB

⁷When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

KJV

⁷When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

BSB

⁷When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

FBV

⁷When a wicked person dies, their hopes die with them; what the godless look forward to is gone.

Extra References

Proverbs 10:28

²⁸The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Job 8:13-14

¹³So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, ¹⁴whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

Job 11:20

²⁰But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Psalms 146:4

⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Luke 12:19-20

¹⁹I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

²⁰“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’ ¹⁰You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 14:32

³²The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Ezekiel 28:9

⁹Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.