New Revised Standard Version
The righteous are delivered from trouble, and the wicked get into it instead.

Contemporary English Version
Trouble goes right past the LORD's people and strikes the wicked.

New American Bible
The just are rescued from a tight spot, but the wicked fall into it instead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

Proverbs 21:18 The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

Esther 7:9,10 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it. . . .

Isaiah 43:3,4 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee. . . .

Daniel 6:23,24 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and he commanded that Daniel should be taken out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the den, and no hurt was found in him, because he believed in his God. . . .