Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 11:4

"Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death." — Proverbs 11:4 (ASV)

The day of wrath - Words true in their highest sense of the great “diesirae” of the future, but spoken primarily of any “day of the Lord,” any time of judgment, when men or nations receive the chastisement of their sins. At such a time riches profit not.