Proverbs 10:28 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:28

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:27-28: Observe, 1. Religion lengthens men's lives and crowns their hopes. What man is he that loves life? Let him fear God, and that will secure him from many things that would prejudice his life, and secure to him life enough in this world and eternal life in the other; the fear of the Lord will add days more than was expected, will add them endlessly...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:28: The hope of the righteous shall be gladness,.... Or, "is gladness" (w); it is now attended with joy; he has a pleasure in the exercise of the grace of hope as to future things; he rejoices in hope of the glory of God, and is enabled to hold fast the rejoicing of his hope firm unto the end, Rom 5:2; and the issue of his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:28: gladness--in confidence of realizing it. expectation . . . perish--in disappointment.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:28: Pro 10:28 28 The expectation of the righteous is gladness And the hope of the godless comes to nothing. תּוחלת as well as תּקוה proceed on the fundamental idea of a strained earnest looking back upon something, the same fundamental idea which in another view gives the meaning of strength (חיל, Arab. ḥayl; ḳuwwat, kawiyy, cf. גּדל, Arab. jdl, plectere, and גּדול, strong and strength).