Proverbs 13:17 (BSB)

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:17: Here we have, 1. The ill consequences of betraying a trust. A wicked messenger, who, being sent to negotiate any business, is false to him that employed him, divulges his counsels, and so defeats his designs, cannot expect to prosper, but will certainly fall into some mischief or other, will be discovered and punished, since nothing is more hateful to God and man than the...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:17: A wicked messenger falleth into mischief,.... That does not do his errand right, nor deliver his message faithfully; such an one falls from the degree of honour in which he was into disgrace; he loses his master's favour that sent him; he is degraded from his post and office: he falls "by evil", or "into evil" (r); by the evil of sin, into the evil of punishment.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:17: A wicked--or, "unfaithful" messenger falleth into mischief--or, "by mischief," or "evil," and so his errand fails. Contrasted is the character of the faithful, whose faithfulness benefits others.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 13:17: A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health. (h) Brings many inconveniences both to himself and to others.