Proverbs 11:8 - Exposition

Out of trouble; i.e. God is at hand to help the righteous out of straits ( de angustia, Vulgate); or takes him away from the evil to come ( Isaiah 57:1 ; Wis. 4:10-14). Septuagint, "escapeth from the chase." In his stead ( Proverbs 21:18 ). The evil from which the righteous is saved fails upon the wicked. As Abraham says to Dives in the parable, "He is comforted, but thou art tormented" ( Luke 16:25 ). Of this substitution many instances occur in Scripture. Thus Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had erected for Mordecai ( Esther 7:10 ); Daniel's accusers were cast into the den of lions from which he was saved ( Daniel 6:24 ; comp. Isaiah 43:4 ).