Proverbs 10:28

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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Therefore, my heart is glad, my whole being rejoices, and my body will dwell securely.

You will guide me with your wise advice, and later you will receive me with honor.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

Be joyful in hope, patient in trouble, and persistent in prayer.

Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May our Lord Jesus, the Messiah himself, and may God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

When a wicked person dies, his hope vanishes; and what he expected from his scheming comes to nothing.

The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God the hope of the godless will be destroyed:

But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."

The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing.

In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side.

When a wicked person dies, his hope vanishes; and what he expected from his scheming comes to nothing.