Proverbs 12:3 (BSB)

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:3: Note, 1. Though men may advance themselves by sinful arts, they cannot by such arts settle and secure themselves; though they may get large estates they cannot get such as will abide: A man shall not be established by wickedness; it may set him in high places, but they are slippery places, Psa 73:18.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:3: A man shall not be established by wickedness,.... Not any man, though he may be established in his wickedness, so as not to be rooted out of it; yet he cannot be so established by it as not to be removed from a prosperous state and condition into an unhappy and distressed one; he may seem to be in a firm and settled state of...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:3: Wickedness cannot give permanent prosperity. root . . . not be moved--firm as a flourishing tree-- (Psa 1:3; Psa 15:5; Jer 17:8).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 12:3: A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. (a) They are so grounded in the favour of God, that their root will prosper continually.