Proverbs 11:8 (BSB)

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:8: As always in death, so sometimes in life, the righteous are remarkably favoured and the wicked crossed. 1. Good people are helped out of the distresses which they thought themselves lost in, and their feet are set in a large room, Psa 66:12; Psa 34:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:8: The righteous is delivered out of trouble,.... One after another he comes into, if not in this life, yet at death; which is to him a perfect deliverance out of all tribulation; see Rev 7:14; or when the wicked die, as in Pro 11:7, then the righteous are delivered from the trouble they gave them, or designed to give them; though it seems rather to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:8: Perhaps the trouble prepared by the wicked, and which he inherits (compare Pro 11:6).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 11:8: The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. (c) That is, will enter into trouble.