Proverbs 10:24 (BSB)

What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:24-25: It is here said, and said again, to the righteous, that it shall be well with them, and to the wicked, Woe to them; and these are set the one over against the other, for their mutual illustration. I. It shall be as ill with the wicked as they can fear, and as well with the righteous as they can desire. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:24: The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him,.... What he dreads in his own mind will be his unhappy case, sooner or later it comes upon him; his fear of distresses, calamities, and judgments in this life, and of eternal wrath and vengeance hereafter; for the most profligate and abandoned wretches, the greatest atheists, who endeavour to work themselves up to a disbelief...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:24: it--the very thing. The wicked get dreaded evil; the righteous, desired good.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:24: Pro 10:24 24 That of which the godless is afraid cometh upon him, And what the righteous desires is granted to him. The formation of the clause 24a is like the similar proverb, Pro 11:27; the subject-idea has there its expression in the genitival annexum, of which Gen 9:6 furnishes the first example; in this passage before us it stands at the beginning, and is...