Proverbs 22:10 (BSB)

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:10: See here, 1. What the scorner does. It is implied that he sows discord and makes mischief wherever he comes. Much of the strife and contention which disturb the peace of all societies is owing to the evil interpreter (as some read it), that construes every thing into the worst, to those that despise and deride every one that comes in their way and take...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:10: Cast out the scorner,.... That makes a mock at sin, a jest at religion, and scoffs at all good men, and everything serious and spiritual; cast such an one out of all company and conversation; out of the family, as mocking Ishmael was cast out of Abraham's family; and out of the church, and all religious societies.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:10: Cast out--or drive away. Scorners foster strife by taunts and revilings.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:10: Pro 22:10 10 Chase away the scorner, and contention goeth out, And strife and reproach rest. If in a company, a circle of friends, a society (lxx ἔκβαλε ἐκ συνεδρίου), a wicked man is found who (vid., the definition of לץ, Pro 21:24) treats religious questions without respect, moral questions in a frivolous way, serious things jestingly, and in his scornful spirit, his passion for...