John Gill Commentary Proverbs 11:4

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

Riches profit not in the day of wrath
When God takes away the soul, and summons to judgment, and brings to it; and as riches profited not Rome Pagan, in the day of the Lamb's wrath upon it; so neither will they profit Rome Papal, when it will come in remembrance before God, to give it the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; see (Revelation 6:15–17) (18:15-17) ;

but righteousness delivereth from death ;
from the curse of a corporeal death; from the power of a spiritual one; and from dying the second or an eternal one; (See Gill on Proverbs 10:2); the Targum is, ``from an evil death.''