Proverbs 11:7

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…

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…

Note, 1. Even wicked men, while they live, may keep up a confident expectation of a happiness when they die, or at least a happiness in this world. The hypocrite has his hope, in which he wraps…

unjustmen] iniquity, R.V. Comp. Hos 9:4, where the expression "bread of mourners" (the same Heb. word) may be "the emblem of utter impurity," because everything connected with death involved…