A chapter by chapter verse by verse study of the book of Proverbs.
In this present age, it often feels that the evil win and sometimes triumph over the good. Solomon reminds us that ultimately evil will bow in submission before the good. Remember the gates of a city was where the judges would sit, or elders. Parents of a rebellious son who wouldn't submit to their discipline were told to take him to the city gate and present him to the elders there. This is where disputes were resolved. We are told that Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, I am not sure if that was a good thing, but maybe since Peter in the New Testament tells us that Lot was "oppressed by the filthy conduct of unprincipled men... his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless acts" Peter calls him “righteous Lot”, perhaps he was trying to influence the politics and morality of the place he lived. I don’t know. The gate was where Boaz went to secure Ruth to be his wife. We read about a good man named Mordichai who was sitting in the gate. He discovered a plot to murder the king. It was delt with and recorded in the chronicles of the king. There was another evil man named Hayman who hated Mordichai because he would not bow to him. He built a gallo’s (better translated tree or pole for impailing). You know the story how the king honored Mordichai, and wicked Haman was made to bow before him. The Egyptians and Joseph’s brothers bowed before Joseph. The proud Pharaoh and his people bowed before Moses. In Hebrew, this is a perfect tense; pictured as having happened. This is an expression of certainty. Good eventually triumphs.