Quick answer
Reputation tends to find its level. Over time people are assessed by their sense rather than by their position.
Read both lines
The verse is about public judgment, and its confidence is worth noticing in a book that elsewhere admits the wicked sometimes prosper. What it claims is not that recognition is instant or fair in the short run, but that a community eventually sorts people by how they actually think. The second line puts the failure in the heart rather than in the behavior, consistent with verse 5, and consistent with 11:20 where a perverse heart was named as what the LORD detests. The same interior that God sees is the one the neighbors eventually notice.
Related: Proverbs 11:20 · Proverbs 12:5 · Proverbs 3:35
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If this verse has been used to put weight on you that it was never carrying, ask about it directly.