Proverbs 11:7

unjustmen] iniquity, R.V. Comp. Hosea 9:4, where the expression "bread of mourners" (the same Heb. word) may be "the emblem of utter impurity," because everything connected with death involved ceremonial defilement. See note there in this Series.

Others render, with R.V. marg., strongmen, or better, strength, i.e. wealth or worldly resources. The expectation of (i.e. based upon) such strength shall perish. Comp. for the sentiment Proverbs 11:4 above.

The proverb obviously implies, as a matter of popular knowledge and belief, that there is an expectation which does not perish at death; an expectation, which for the true children of Abraham, as for Abraham himself (Hebrews 11:9-10), reached beyond remembrance on earth in fame or family, "to all generations" (Psalms 49:11).