Proverbs 15:8 (BSB)

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:8: Note, 1. God so hates wicked people, whose hearts are malicious and their lives mischievous, that even their sacrifices are an abomination to him. God has sacrifices brought him even by wicked men, to stop the mouth of conscience and to keep up their reputation in the world, as malefactors come to a sanctuary, not because it is a holy place, but because it shelters...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:8: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,.... Even those sacrifices which were of divine appointment under the former dispensation, when offered by wicked men, without faith in Christ, without any sense of sin, repentance for it, and reformation from it; when these were used as a cloak for sin, under which they sheltered and satisfied themselves, and went on in sin...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:8: The sacrifice [and] prayer--are acts of worship. way . . . followeth . . . righteousness--denote conduct. God's regard for the worship and deeds of the righteous and wicked respectively, so stated in Psa 50:17; Isa 1:11.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 15:8: The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight. (b) That thing is abominable before God, which the wicked think to be most excellent, and by which they think most to be accepted.