Proverbs 14:9 (BSB)

Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:9

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:9: See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:9: Fools make a mock at sin,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those that do them; yea, sport themselves with the mischief that arises from them unto others; they make a mock at reproofs for them, and scoff at those that...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:9: Fools make a mock at sin--or, "Sin deludes fools." righteous . . . favour--that is, of God, instead of the punishment of sin.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 14:9: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour. (f) Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same.