The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.

So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.”

(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.