Proverbs 12:2 (BSB)

The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:2: Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:2: A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord,.... One that is made so by the grace of God, for no man is so naturally; there is none good, nor does good, no, not one, until some good thing is put into him, or the good work of grace is begun in him.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 12:1-2: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. (t) Will be punished as he deserves, .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:2: Pro 12:2 2 A good man obtaineth favour with Jahve, But the man of wicked devices He condemns. He who is an אישׁ מזמּות (Pro 14:17, cf. Psa 37:7) is defined in Pro 24:8 : he is a man of devices, namely, that are wicked, one who contrives evil against his neighbour.