Proverbs 20:22 (BSB)

Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:22: Those that live in this world must expect to have injuries done them, affronts given them, and trouble wrongfully created them, for we dwell among briers. Now here we are told what to do when we have wrong done us. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:22: Say not thou, I will recompense evil,.... With evil; do an injury to one that has done one to you; private revenge is not to be taken, but should be left to God, to whom vengeance belongs, Deu 32:35; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee; commit thyself and cause to God; leave it with him to avenge thy wrongs; wait upon...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:22: Pro 20:22 22 Say not: I will avenge the evil; Hope in Jahve, so will He help thee. Men ought always to act toward their neighbours according to the law of love, and not according to the jus talionis, Pro 24:29; they ought not only, by requiting good with evil (Pro 16:13; Psa 7:5, Psa 35:12), not to transgress this law of requital, but they...