John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 8. The righteous is delivered out of trouble , etc.] 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 Revelation 7:14); or when the wicked die, as in ( Proverbs 11:7), then the righteous are delivered from the trouble they gave them, or designed to give them; though it seems rather to design deliverance from trouble in the first sense, since it follows, and the wicked cometh in his stead ; as Haman did in the room of Mordecai, and was hanged upon the gallows the other was delivered from, and he had prepared for him, ( Esther 7:10); and as Daniel was delivered from the lion’s den, and his enemies thrown into it, ( Daniel 6:24); and as in the latter day the righteous will be delivered from all their persecutors, and antichrist will be destroyed with the breath of Christ’s mouth, and the brightness of his coming; and then they that destroyed the earth shall be destroyed themselves, ( Revelation 11:18).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8 - The righteous are often wonderfully kept from going into dangerou situations, and the ungodly go in their stead.
Original Hebrew צדיק6662 מצרה6869 נחלץ2502 ויבא935 רשׁע7563 תחתיו׃8478
