Quick answer
The order eventually inverts. The verse describes a reversal without saying when it arrives.
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The image is of position: bowing, and standing at someone else's gates rather than one's own. In a book that elsewhere admits the wicked often prosper, this is a claim about the long run rather than about next week, and the absence of a timeline is honest rather than evasive. What it refuses to do is promise the righteous a moment of vindication they get to enjoy. The verse states an outcome and leaves the satisfaction unmentioned, which is a restraint worth noticing in a sentence that could easily have gloated.
Related: Proverbs 11:8 · Proverbs 24:17–18 · Proverbs 13:22
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If this verse has been used to put weight on you that it was never carrying, ask about it directly.