John Trapp on Proverbs 11:7

Verſ. 7. When a wicked man dyeth, his expectation ſhall periſh] Hee died perhaps in ſtrong hopes of Heaven, as thoſe ſeem to have done that came rapping and bouncing at Heaven-gates, with Lord, Lord, open unto us, but were ſent away with a Non novi vos, Depart, I know you not, Mat. 7.

And the hope of unjuſt men] Etiam spes valentiſſima perit. So ſome render it; his moſt ſtrong hope ſhall come to nothing. Hee made a bridge of his own ſhadow, and thought to go over it, but is fallen into the brook: Hee thought hee had taken hold of God: but it is but with him, as with a childe that catcheth at the ſhadow on the wall, which hee thinks hee holds faſt, but hee onely thinks ſo.