Proverbs 18:3 (BSB)

With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:3: This may include a double sense: - 1. That wicked people are scornful people, and put contempt upon others. When the wicked comes into any company, comes into the schools of wisdom or into the assemblies for religious worship, then comes contempt of God, of his people and ministers, and of every thing that is said and done.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:3: When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt,.... When he comes into the world, as Aben Ezra; as soon as he is born, he is liable to contempt, being born in sin; but this is true of all: rather, as the Vulgate Latin, and with which the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions agree, when he cometh into the depth of sin, or to the height...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:3: So surely are sin and punishment connected (Pro 16:4). wicked, for "wickedness," answers to ignominy, or the state of such; and contempt, the feeling of others to them; and to reproach, a manifestation of contempt.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 18:3: When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. (c) Meaning, such a one as condemns all others.