Proverbs 21:7 (BSB)

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:7: See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (Pro 21:6) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:7: The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" (s) them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due, or doing injury to men in their properties, cheating them or stealing from them, are set home on their consciences, they are in the utmost...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:7: robbery--or, "destruction," especially oppression, of which they are authors. shall destroy--literally, "cut with a saw" (Kg1 7:9), that is, utterly ruin them. Their sins shall be visited on them in kind. to do judgment--what is just and right.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 21:7: The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. (d) He means this chiefly of judges and princes who leave that calling, to which God has called them, and impoverish their subjects to maintain their lusts.