Proverbs 10:23 (BSB)

The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:23: Here is, 1. Sin exceedingly sinful: It is as laughter to a fool to do mischief; it is as natural to him, and as pleasant, as it is to a man to laugh. Wickedness is his Isaac (that is the word here); it is his delight, his darling, and that in which he pleases himself. He makes a laughing matter of sin.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:23: It is as sport to a fool to do mischief,.... To do any injury to the persons and properties of men; which shows a most wicked and malicious spirit, a very depraved nature indeed: or rather "to commit sin" (o) of any sort, which he has devised in his own heart; it is as a "laughing" (p), as the words may be rendered; it is...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:23: Sin is the pleasure of the wicked; wisdom that of the good.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:23: Pro 10:23 23 Like sport to a fool is the commission of a crime; And wisdom to a man of understanding. Otherwise Löwenstein: to a fool the carrying out of a plan is as sport; to the man of understanding, on the contrary, as wisdom. זמּה, from זמם, to press together, mentally to think, as Job 17:11, and according to Gesenius, also Pro 21:27; Pro 24:9.