Proverbs 12:21 (BSB)

No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:21: Note, 1. Piety is a sure protection. If men be sincerely righteous, the righteous God has engaged that no evil shall happen to them. He will, by the power of his grace in them, that principle of justice, keep them from the evil of sin; so that, though they be tempted, yet they shall not be overcome by the temptation, and though they may come...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:21: There shall no evil happen to the just,.... The evil of sin: no iniquity, as the Targum; which, and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, interpret of sin not being agreeable, convenient, suit able, and pleasing to a righteous man.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:21: no evil--(as in Psa 91:10), under God's wise limitations (Rom 8:28). mischief--as penal evil.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:21: Pro 12:21 21 No evil befalls the righteous, But the godless are full of evil. Hitzig translates און “sorrow,” and Zöckler “injury;” but the word signifies evil as ethical wickedness, and although it may be used of any misfortune in general (as in בּן־אוני, opp.