Proverbs 15:25 (BSB)

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:25: Note, 1. Those that are elevated God delights to abase, and commonly does it in the course of his providence: The proud, that magnify themselves, bid defiance to the God above them and trample on all about them, are such as God resists and will destroy, not them only, but their houses, which they are proud of and are confident of the continuance and perpetuity of.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:25: The Lord will destroy the house of the proud,.... To whom he has the utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, which their have fancied shall continue for ever; and also their families, their children and posterity; these shall be as stubble, and shall be burnt up in his wrath, and neither root nor branch left.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:25: The most desolate who have God's aid have more permanent good than the self-reliant sinner (Pro 2:22; Pro 12:7). border--or, "boundary for possessions" (Psa 78:54).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:25: Pro 15:25 25 The house of the proud Jahve rooteth out, And He establisheth the landmark of the widow. The power unnamed in יסּחוּ, Pro 2:22 (cf. Pro 14:11), is here named יסּח יהוה (thus to be pointed with Mercha and Pasek following). יצּב is the abbreviated fut. form which the elevated style, e.g., Deu 32:8, uses also as indic. - a syntactical circumstance which renders Hitzig’s correction ויּצּב superfluous.