Proverbs 21:24 (BSB)

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:24: See here the mischief of pride and haughtiness. 1. It exposes men to sin; it makes them passionate, and kindles in them the fire of proud wrath. They are continually dealing in it, as if it were their trade to be angry, and they had nothing so much to do as to barter passions and exchange bitter words.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:24: Proud and haughty scorner is his name,.... He shall be called a proud fool, a haughty fellow, a scornful blockhead; he shall get himself an ill name, and be treated with contempt; who dealeth in proud wrath; whose pride shows itself in wrathful expressions and actions; who is proud and passionate in all his dealings with men, and who as it were makes a trade...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:24: The reproachful name is deserved by those who treat others with anger and contempt.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:24: Pro 21:24 24 A proud and arrogant man is called mocker (free-spirit); One who acteth in superfluity of haughtiness. We have thus translated (vol. i. p. 39): the proverb defines almost in a formal way an idea current from the time of Solomon: לץ (properly, the distorter, vid., Pro 1:7) is an old word; but as with us in the west since the last century...