Proverbs 20:14 (BSB)

“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:14: See here 1. What arts men use to get a good bargain and to buy cheap. They not only cheapen carelessly, as if they had no need, no mind for the commodity, when perhaps they cannot go without it (there may be prudence in that), but they vilify and run down that which yet they know to be of value; they cry, "It is naught...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:14: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer,.... When he comes to the shop of the seller, or to market to buy goods, he undervalues them, says they are not so good as they should be, nor so cheap as he can buy them at; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth; after he has brought the seller to as low...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:14: when . . . his way--implying that he goes about boasting of his bargains.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:14: Pro 20:14 The following group has its natural limit at the new point of departure at Pro 20:20, and is internally connected in a diversity of ways. 14 “Bad, bad!” saith the buyer; And going his way, he boasteth then. Luther otherwise: “Bad, bad!” saith one if he hath it; But when it is gone, then he boasteth of it. This rendering has many supporters.