Solomon
Proverbs 11:8ESV·traditional attribution

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

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

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 @doctorgill

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 @jfbcommentary

Perhaps the trouble prepared by the wicked, and which he inherits (compare Pro 11:6).