Proverbs 21:15 (BSB)

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:15: Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see justice administered by the government they live under, right taking place and iniquity suppressed, and also to practise it themselves, according as their sphere is. They no only do justice, but do it with pleasure, not only for fear of shame, but for love of virtue. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:15: It is joy to the, last to do judgment,.... It is with pleasure he does it; he delights in the law of God, after the inward man, and finds much peace of mind and joy in the Holy Ghost in keeping it, and observing its commands, which are holy, just, and good; yea, it gives him pleasure to see justice done by others; both by...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:15: But the just love right and need no bribes. The wicked at last meet destruction, though for a time happy in concealing corruption.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:15: Pro 21:15 15 It is a joy to the just to do justice, And a terror for them that work iniquity. To act according to the law of rectitude is to these as unto death; injustice has become to them a second nature, so that their heart strives against rectitude of conduct; it also enters to little into their plan of life, and their economy...